I have asked Google's policy team, repeatedly, about what capabilities they
have for intercepting Hangout conversations, and I always get the same
vague no comment.
Although Google is a clear transparency leader when it comes to reporting
aggregate stats on the # of requests that they receive, the
Jake,
The section of Skype's privacy policy that describes (with no real detail)
the assistance they provide to law enforcement agencies is exactly the same
text that was present before Microsoft bought the company.
(See, for example:
http://web.archive.org/web/20100701074213/http://www.skype.com
I can't believe that I am saying this, but can we tone down the paranoia a
bit please?
Large US technology companies are stockpiling patents, left, right and
center, primarily because of the costly patent wars that are ravaging the
industry. Back in 2011, Microsoft (and a consortium of other compa
You may want to consider rewriting your law enforcement/government
surveillance section:
As a result of the service being acquired by Microsoft in 2011, it may now
be required to comply with CALEA due to the company being headquartered in
Redmond, Washington. Furthermore, as a US-based communicati
our expert advice, Chris. We're currently in the process of
>> reworking the letter with assistance from the EFF and we'll take what you
>> said into consideration.
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>> NK
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>> On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 1:58 AM, Christopher Soghoian > &
I think your section on law enforcement stuff could still use some work.
I really think you should get rid of some of the text in the references.
Specifically, delete this text: "As a result of the service being acquired
by Microsoft in 2011, it may now be required to comply with CALEA due to
the
An entire article's worth of lip service?
“I’m agnostic about this,” he says, “I don’t really care if Silent Circle
captures this market, just as long as somebody does.”
I spent the entire interview with the Verge writer complaining about the
crappy security delivered by the wireless carriers, w
hnology/future_tense/2012/10/silent_circle_mike_janke_s_iphone_app_makes_encryption_easy_governments.single.html
Christopher Soghoian, principal technologist at the ACLU's Speech Privacy
and Technology Project, said he was excited to see a company like Silent
Circle visibly competing on privacy and security but that he was waiting
for it to go open source and b
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On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 12:15 PM, Andy Isaacson wrote:
> Silent Circle may be an excellent privacy app. It might not have any
> significant security problems. It might even do a good job of
> mitigating important platform-based attacks and supporting important new
> use cases (the "b
Hi Nadim,
You didn't directly respond to Ryan's question. Have you actually spoken to
anyone at Silent Circle?
The Silent Circle App isn't available for download to the general public
yet. As such, I think the company can be forgiven for not having source
code available just yet. Why not wait unt
Hi all,
When considering the threat of legally compelled assistance, I think it is
useful to spell out the specific threats. The two big ones, IMHO, are
1. Compelled disclosure of data retained about users.
2. Compelled insertion of backdoors into the product.
Now, folks on this list are throwin
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