Also relevant, today's announcement by Mozilla and others of a free encryption certs via a new public benefit corp/tCA and open source tools to deploy this encryption on a site with 2 commands: https://letsencrypt.org/2014/11/18/announcing-lets-encrypt.html
On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 8:30 AM, Felix Stalder <[email protected]> wrote: > http://www.wired.com/2014/11/whatsapp-encrypted-messaging/ > > Growing up in Soviet Ukraine in the 1980s, Whatsapp founder Jan Koum > learned to distrust the government and detest its surveillance. After he > emigrated to the U.S. and created his ultra-popular messaging system > decades later, he vowed that Whatsapp would never make eavesdropping > easy for anyone. Now, Whatsapp is following through on that > anti-snooping promise at an unprecedented scale. <...> # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [email protected]
