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posted by on Sunday April 30 2017, @04:18AM   Printer-friendly
from the or-not dept.

Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzard

With slick marketing, catchy taglines and some pretty bold claims about their security, nomx claim to have cracked email security.

This thorough article tells all about the device, and it doesn't measure up at all to its marketing.

It would be very easy to conclude that this is a scam. The device is running standard mail server software running on a Raspberry Pi, most of which is outdated. They have presented at countless tech shows and can be constantly found making bold statements of 'absolute security' yet didn't pick up a CSRF vulnerability in their web interface.

Source: https://scotthelme.co.uk/nomx-the-worlds-most-secure-communications-protocol/

Nomx has issued a reply on their main page in a post titled 'nomx Passes Security Tests After Blogger Claims to Have Penetrated nomx'. In that reply nomx states the following results:

No nomx user was affected by this threat. No nomx user could be affected by this threat in the future. No nomx data was compromised, and the blogger has (finally) reluctantly verified this. He still has not publicly shared these statements, except via an email response to the BBC when directly asked on April 25 the response was:

From the BBC to nomx: "I understand from your replies that you state categorically that no nomx accounts have been affected by this hack. I have put your questions to [blogger] who has confirmed to me that he cannot say that any have."

While nomx is no longer based on Raspberry devices, we still maintain that the users' data is secured as we've demonstrated to the blogger, the media and our customers.

Also at Ars Technica


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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday April 30 2017, @04:48AM (7 children)

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Sunday April 30 2017, @04:48AM (#501787) Homepage

    Nihgers. Niggers.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 30 2017, @04:50AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 30 2017, @04:50AM (#501788)

    Shut it, vato.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 30 2017, @04:54AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 30 2017, @04:54AM (#501790)

      viiiiiiiagra

  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 30 2017, @11:58AM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 30 2017, @11:58AM (#501830)

    Ethanol, I've noticed lately that a lot of your posts seem to be peppered with gratuitous racial slurs (e.g., "nigger", "jew", etc.) Have you been drinking excessively? Off your meds? It is especially grating because it adds nothing of value to the discussion.

    • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 30 2017, @02:41PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 30 2017, @02:41PM (#501861)

      Have you been drinking excessively? Off your meds?

      Sadly, that's just who Ethanol-fueled is: a raging racist who adds nothing to the conversation.

      • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 30 2017, @09:29PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 30 2017, @09:29PM (#502008)

        Well, you may not remember but there was a time when he actually would make reasonable contributions to the conversation. Sadly, those days seem to be fading into the twilight.

    • (Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 30 2017, @04:10PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 30 2017, @04:10PM (#501893)

      His name is literally "Ethanol Fueled" and yet you still need to ask if he has been drinking?

    • (Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Monday May 01 2017, @01:03AM

      by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Monday May 01 2017, @01:03AM (#502074) Homepage

      Vacation. Though there shoulkd be a dropoff of shitposts because i injured my hand and have ti type one handed for a week or so.