[liberationtech] Whatsapp, a Trojan horse for seekers of easy privacy?

[hellekin]

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On 01/15/2015 07:46 PM, Al Billings wrote:
> 
>> of the late Lavabit service.
> 
> ?
> 
> I’ve never used Lavabit or been associated with it.
>
*** I certainly hope you know what I'm talking about.  If not, the
Lavabit owner preferred to close the service instead of being subjected
to a gag order and betraying his customers and convictions.  Nothing
like this happened with other services subjected to such treatment or
worse.  I won't make you the insult of presuming you didn't hear about
PRISM as well.

>> Since when the LiberationTech mailing list discusses non-free software?
>> I thought software freedom and access to the source code was considered
>> a requirement for considering a system secure.
> 
> According to whom?
>
*** There are plenty of occurrences in the mailing list archive of
solutions claiming security that were dismissed for being proprietary
solutions.  Moxie's work is an exceptional case for he has an
exceptional track record.

> 
> And your solution is what?
> 
*** I have a preference for peer-to-peer solutions.  I also have the
rationality to take for granted that there's no "my" solution, and in
case you're interested I recently made a point that a purely technical
solution is not enough. [0]

==
hk

[0]
https://gnu.org/consensus/talks/quito-2014/gnu-consensus-quito-2014-en.html
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