On Friday 19 September 2014 04:25 PM, Vikas Tara wrote: > On 18/09/14 18:06, sahil साहिल wrote: >> >> Middle-School Dropout Codes Clever Chat Program That Foils NSA Spying >> >> http://www.wired.com/2014/09/new-encrypted-chat-program-thwarts-nsa-eliminating-metadata/?mbid=social_fb >> >> I am preety much happy to see that some good folks are working out there >> for our privacy and freedom of speech. > Keep an eye on this one too, built on the bittorrent protocol > http://blog.bittorrent.com/2014/09/17/bittorrent-bleep-alpha-goes-public-introduces-mac-and-android-apps/
Security by obscurity can never be a solution to security/privacy problems. Each of the above software can claim that they do this and that and how it provides the user security and privacy, but when it is not FOSS, it is dead on arrival with just the illusion of security and privacy, since no one will be able to verify their claims. Since most of the software and apps auto-update, what stops the NSA or other intelligence agencies to force the company behind the software to release a version with backdoors so that they can snoop in? When an agency like NSA does such a thing, they make sure the company at the receiving end cannot even disclose that they have been forced by NSA to do something like that. http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html by RMS is a good read on this topic of surveilance. Thanks & Regards, Guruprasad
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