Johan Wevers wrote: > On 11-08-2020 17:18, Stefan Claas wrote: > > >> Why hardware? If a bug is found you can't upgrade it easily. > > > > Because hardware can't be tampered with like software. > > If a hardware bug is found you're still lost. Even Apple has found out > the hard way.
Yes, you are right. While I am no programmer I would assume that designers of such little hardware devices, same as YubiKey or Nitrokey for example, do not have to deal with a boatload of large software components, burned into ROMS. > >> On mobile, encrypted messengers are the norm. WhatsApp is the biggest, > >> and it uses Signal's encryption algorithm which is excellent. > > > > And you think that continuing with those is a good practice since > > Mr Snowden's YouTube Video was released? > > It is a risk, but not a bigger risk than someone taking over your pc or > laptop. Signal and GnuPG are both defenseless against that. Yes, a risk, but at what price? I could imagine that many people do not care to much if it hurts journalists or activists from foreign countries. But how about cybercrimes in general? https://cybersecurityventures.com/hackerpocalypse-cybercrime-report-2016/ Regards Stefan -- my 'hidden' service gopherhole: gopher://iria2xobffovwr6h.onion _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
