That's great -- I'm going to hold up until there is some actual source code.
NK On 10/11/2012 2:41 PM, Robert Guerra wrote: > Eric King btw is the name of the person who is the head of research at > Privacy International. > > https://www.privacyinternational.org/people/eric-king > > Eric is head of research at Privacy International, where he runs the Big > Brother Incorporated project, an investigation of the international trade in > surveillance technologies. His work focuses on the intersection of human > rights, privacy and technology. He is the secret prisons technical adviser at > Reprieve, is on the advisory council of the Foundation for Information Policy > Research and holds a degree in law from the London School of Economics. > > regards > > > -- > R. Guerra > Phone/Cell: +1 202-905-2081 > Twitter: twitter.com/netfreedom > Email: rgue...@privaterra.org > > On 2012-10-11, at 2:36 PM, Julian Oliver wrote: > >> >> ..on Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 02:24:54PM -0400, Nadim Kobeissi wrote: >>> >>> The closed-source nature of the software makes pushing >>> government-mandated backdoors incredibly easy and extremely difficult to >>> detect if done right. This is a tall claim not backed by evidence or the >>> possibility of review. >> >> A chap on Twitter by the name of Eric King wrote that "I don't have a URL yet >> but Phil said yesterday he was releasing the source code." >> >> In any case, even with the source (including server-side) it is unclear as to >> whether protection is not compromised by this suite. >> >> With a credit-card payment system the client list is practically a click away >> for any Government client, itself a worry. Having the servers located on >> Canadian soil garners little, I think: software in a position like this >> configures the distributor under responsibility to the juristiction in which >> its >> business is registered whilst foreign governments become potential clients. >> >> Ultimately software promising this level of privacy needs to reflect that >> people >> come from differing geo-political contexts. As such both client and server >> needs >> to be freely distributed and installable such that communities can then >> manage >> their own communication needs, taking risks within their techno-political >> context as they see fit. >> >> Cheers, >> >> -- >> Julian Oliver >> http://julianoliver.com >> http://criticalengineering.org >> -- >> Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: >> https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech > > -- > Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech > -- Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
