A number of things about this one made me kind of uneasy. The clichéd tone of the article “high-school dropout trumps NSA!” The complete absence of input from anyone who wasn’t a project insider, and the dissing of competitors who are actually shipping working software. I mentioned on Twitter that a couple of things about the story made my BS filter twitch, and I got slimed by multiple project partisans (nobody I’ve ever heard of) for being a hater, etc. I looked at the github repo and if any development is actually happening, it’s not there; no commits to the actual code for a couple months. Now, none of those things in & of itself is reason to dismiss Ricochet, but I have to say my BS filter is doing more than twitching.
On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 12:32 PM, =JeffH <[email protected]> wrote: > this is just fyi/fwiw, I haven't investigated this other than skimming the > article.. > > Middle-School Dropout Codes Clever Chat Program That Foils NSA Spying > [ricochet] > http://www.wired.com/2014/09/new-encrypted-chat-program- > thwarts-nsa-eliminating-metadata > > https://github.com/ricochet-im/ricochet > > > also mentioned.. > > Wickr > Tox > TorChat > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Messaging mailing list > [email protected] > https://moderncrypto.org/mailman/listinfo/messaging > -- - Tim Bray (If you’d like to send me a private message, see https://keybase.io/timbray)
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