According to TechDirt:
It's beginning to look like a US-based encrypted communications platform may be headed for a Lavabit-esque future. As we're well aware, agencies like the FBI and NSA are firmly opposed to encrypted communications, which is something Surespot -- a text-messaging service -- offers.
Surespot has been in the news lately, thanks to terrorist groups utilizing encrypted services to keep their communications secret. UK's Channel Four looked into Surespot and found that 115 "ISIS-linked" people "appear" to have used the service in the "past six months." Because UK 4 wasn't able to get this information from Surespot directly (because Surespot doesn't store personally identifiable information or users' communications), it has only been able to infer this from messages on social media services that refer to Surespot.
What this means in terms of terrorists "flocking" to encrypted apps is still very vague, but there's no doubt any additional layers of secrecy are welcomed by those wishing to hide their communications. What 115 ISIS-linked users means in terms of an installed user base of at least 100,000 is also open for discussion, but it's quite obvious there are plenty of non-terrorists using the service as well.
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George Maschke of Antipolygraph.org has been periodically sending emails to Surespot, unofficially acting as the service's warrant canary. For several months, his questions have been answered. But as of May 25th, he has still received no response to his canned questions.
There's good reason to believe this is true. A recent plea agreement by a 17-year-old Virginia native charged with providing material support to ISIS (via instructions on how to use Bitcoin to provide anonymous donations) specifically mentions Surespot.
(Score: 5, Funny) by Whoever on Monday June 15 2015, @03:55PM
It's quite simple, just require use of the evil bit [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 2) by BsAtHome on Monday June 15 2015, @04:36PM
I always have my Evil Bit enabled on all packets. It is obvious that any and all information has a potential for harm. Therefore, by extension, all data that is transmitted, however innocuous it may seem, must be a potential threat and requires to be marked as such.
I am proud to serve all my data with the Evil Bit set. Take that you poor innocent reader!
(Score: 2, Interesting) by DECbot on Monday June 15 2015, @06:43PM
ACK! Your point if view has infected my thinking! I too must set the Evil Bit on everything. If you'll need me, I'll be in my basement downloading Gentoo, readind man pages about compiling with the Evil Bit, and booting without systemd on a modern kernal!
cats~$ sudo chown -R us /home/base
(Score: 2) by Fnord666 on Tuesday June 16 2015, @02:35AM
You wouldn't have a pointer to a Github repository for your IP stack implementation would you?
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 16 2015, @06:57AM
Get the binary from sourceforge, the evil-bit is already pre-set.