> 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
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