> Seems rather reasonable, really. Hardly malware but hardly perfect. Perhaps I am missing something, but isn't the point of contention that Wickr and Silent Circle are promising trust in the destruction of messages on the receiver side, which as far as I am aware is an improbable claim? Again, correct me if I am wrong, but Pond does not claim that a user cannot edit the source to extend the expiration period, let alone copy and paste from chats, correct?
On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 2:11 PM, Jacob Appelbaum <[email protected]> wrote: > Brian Conley: > > Apparently Silent Circle is also proposing such a feature now. > > Such a feature makes sense when we consider the pervasive world of > targeted attacks. If you compromise say, my email client today, you may > get years of email. If you compromise my Pond client today, you get a > weeks worth of messages. Such a feature is something I think is useful > and I agreed to it when I started using Pond. It is a kind of forward > secrecy that understands that attackers sometimes win but you'd like > them to not win everything for all time. > > Seems rather reasonable, really. Hardly malware but hardly perfect. > > All the best, > Jake > > -- > Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech > -- *Collin David Anderson* averysmallbird.com | @cda | Washington, D.C.
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