On 19/09/14 12:33, L. Guruprasad wrote: > 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. Good point, on first read I assumed Bleep was opensource, but it does not appear to be so.
A quick search on bleep+opensource shows people asking the same question or proposing that they open the code. If they don't open the code then I would suggest (and hope) their success might well be limited in the current climate _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc ILUGC Mailing List Guidelines: http://ilugc.in/mailinglist-guidelines
