On 2013-08-09, at 1:24 PM, Nick <liberationt...@njw.me.uk> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 09, 2013 at 11:26:21AM +0300, Nadim Kobeissi wrote: >> On 2013-08-08, at 11:53 PM, Mike Perry <mikepe...@torproject.org> wrote: >>> It is profoundly encouraging to see that people of such courage and >>> integrity as the Lavabit staff exist, and are willing to put everything >>> on the line to stand up against this madness. >> >> +1. >> For what it's worth, and even though I think it's pretty unlikely that >> Cryptocat will receive such an order, I've posted a pledge on our Twitter >> feed: >> https://twitter.com/cryptocatapp/status/365733575351480321 > > Would implementing some sort of build assurance thing like Tor have > done recently help here? So if the government said "please put a > back door for us", you could legitimately say "sorry, not possible > without people noticing". That's an even better option than > "crypto.cat is now closed, you may like to complain to the US > government about that."
Yup, Cryptocat has had build assurance for quite some time. "Sorry, not possible to backdoor without people noticing" is still a valid line of defence and has been one for a while. But I guess it was still worth it to tweet that in the event that even that line of defence is somehow circumvented, in the (unlikely, I know) circumstance that we get some sort of legal order that's definitely beyond our capacity to swerve around, then yeah, Cryptocat would rather cease development. It's just a simple extra assurance. NK > > Note that I haven't yet had a chance to read about the verified build > stuff in any detail, and I'm not sure how easy it would be to verify > such a build against what's on one of the browser extension / addon > stores. So maybe I'm talking nonsense ;) > -- > Liberationtech list is public and archives are searchable on Google. Too many > emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing > moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech -- Liberationtech list is public and archives are searchable on Google. Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
