On Tue, Nov 06, 2012 at 02:28:36PM -0500, Nadim Kobeissi wrote: > I believe that releasing closed-source, unreviewed and centralized crypto > software and then marketing it as secure to be malpractice. That is simply > my point.
I stopped looking at SilentCircle when I was looking through their FAQ: https://silentcircle.com/web/faq/ and clicked on the question "Is Silent Phone secure?" expecting an answer like "well, it depends what you mean by secure, but here's what it does and doesn't do for you" and instead got the answer "Yes it is." I'm sure we can have a debate about the relative merits of misleading your users for their own good ("if we didn't say that, they'd go use an even worse system that does say it"), but it's times like this that I'm glad I work for a non-profit that doesn't have to make a business tradeoff to decide how much to lie to its users. --Roger -- Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
