[liberationtech] Comments on Internews new "information security guide"

Eugen Leitl eugen at leitl.org
Wed Nov 14 02:26:01 PST 2012


On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 07:39:17PM -0500, Collin Anderson wrote:
> Well sure, but once your computer is compromised, the tool that you are using to communicate does not really matter anymore. This is nothing on Skype; I think we can say that the IP-revealing exploit from this Spring/Summer was more than enough to not trust the security of the Skype client for any time to come.

You had any reason to assume a proprietary client which routes
through the corporation's server farm (running FreeBSD) to be
trustable in the first place?

If yes, what the hell is wrong with you?



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