> On 18 Jun 2020, at 04:17, fuzzyTew <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm remembering the Hushmail fiasco, where federal agents actually forced the > provider of E2EE email to add a backdoor to their client side code that > extracted and preserved the private key of the users. > > Pair that with big organizations like IBM denying facial recognition to law > enforcement due to the current ongoing violent controversy over misuse of > authority. > > Zoom has been a very large video chat system during the coronavirus pandemic. > They must have a lot of disparate pressures. It's nice of them to show us > how difficult it is to offer real security as a for-profit corporation. > > They may not have heard of the Hushmail history. I imagine that kind of > thing could be done with a system compromise, too, which is hard for anyone > to prevent for everyone. > > I wonder if there is a way to defend against situations like Hushmail > happening a little,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrant_canary <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrant_canary> dss David Stodolsky, PhD Institute for Social Informatics Tornskadestien 2, st. th., DK-2400 Copenhagen NV, Denmark [email protected] Tel./Signal: +45 3095 4070
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