[liberationtech] Want to shield text, photos from government? Wickr says it has an app for that | SiliconBeat
Griffin Boyce
griffinboyce at gmail.com
Sat Jun 8 14:11:29 PDT 2013
Nadim Kobeissi <nadim at nadim.cc> wrote:
> we're supposed to discuss proprietary software not only as secure, but as
> "military-grade" and "government-proof".
It's kind of ironic that so many apps refer to themselves as
"military-grade," when the intelligentsia on this list has better security
than military intelligence. To be "military-grade" at this stage is to
take a step backward.
foreach secure_app $secure_apps {
> if {$secure_app eq "proprietary"} {continue}
> ...
> }
> -Jonathan
Zing! One of the OHM villages this year is called Noisy Square, with the
motto "Revolutions don't happen in Silent Circles." ;-)
~Griffin
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