[liberationtech] Facebook Group Encryption Chrome Extension

Isaac Wilder isaac_lists at freenetworkmovement.org
Mon Apr 16 14:02:15 PDT 2012


My thoughts exactly.

:-!


imw

On 04/16/2012 04:00 PM, Nathan of Guardian wrote:
> On 04/16/2012 04:56 PM, Jeffrey Burdges wrote:
>> In fact, if you read the messages on facebook itself, they tactfully replace the message with 
>> [encrypted message]
> This is actually a very interesting phenomenon that I have noticed
> myself (we test our Android OTR app Gibberbot on Facebook quite a bit).
>
> In short, Facebook has code that is actively detecting the OTR protocol
> signature, and permanently flagging that a message in a user's Facebook
> inbox is encrypted.
>
> Facebook could probably easily generate a list of anyone who has every
> used an encrypted chat application on their system.
>
> +n
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