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on Tuesday April 05 2016, @11:17PM
from the what-about-beginning-to-beginning dept.
from the what-about-beginning-to-beginning dept.
The title pretty much says it all. According to the report:
the service will encrypt all messages, phone calls, photos, and videos moving among [the devices].
Moxie Marlinspike is involved, so they have a chance of getting it right, and no one, even WhatsApp, will be able to know what you”re saying, texting, viewing, &c. (Unless, of course, your widget is running malware, or the opposition can get their mitts on it.)-: They claim this is available on nearly a billion devices—this is a really big deal.
takyon: Alternate links with no Wired paywall: TechCrunch, Washington Post, CNET, Reuters.
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(Score: 5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 06 2016, @12:16AM
(1) There will ALWAYS be flaws. This is an improvement in the number of flaws. Do not let the perfect be the enemy of the good.
(2) There is a network effect here - by default ALL traffic is now encrypted. We already know that the NSA keys on encrypted traffic as suspicious and automatically worthy of scrutiny and preservation beyond their default levels. When everybody uses encryption, the people who desperately need encryption no longer draw attention to themselves simply by using encryption. That's a big improvement in the baseline.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 06 2016, @12:22AM
Not to mention the increase in storage requirements.
(Score: 2) by bitstream on Wednesday April 06 2016, @03:01PM
You'r right. Unless people are being lulled into using compromised encryption on a massive scale so that it's possible to pick out the unbreakable or hard ones from the crowd that then is only hard from the perspective of ordinary people (plebs).
Proprietary software is now in a dilemma. They can protect profits, or protect trust. It's possible to make a profit from released source but it's not longer an obvious course of action.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 06 2016, @07:16PM
This app has a serious issue, which is that it's proprietary. It doesn't respect the users' freedoms and can't be trusted. It's good that they supposedly have better encryption, but it needs to respect the freedoms of the user before it can really be recommended.