Hi Joseph, Joseph Bonneau wrote: > First version launched today: https://www.eff.org/secure-messaging-scorecard > > This was a collaboration between tech advisers (primarily Peter > Eckersley and myself) and a good team of people with experience in > journalism and activism and there were necessarily some compromises > made. The primary goals here were: > > (a) simplicity for users (and journalists) to draw some conclusions > about what's out there right now and we had to make a lot of compromises > to keep things simple for end-users to understand. > > (b) reasonable carrots for some of the traditional messaging apps to add > security features, get audits, and publish source code. > > Hopefully we will be launching a more detailed version next year with > many more evaluation criteria but would be curious to hear feedback on > this version from other folks working in this space.
What's completely missing is if a given software is free/open source. The main point being: everyone can actually audit the codebase if they're willing and capable. vs. closed source products that might have undergone external audits. Anyway. Good work. Aaron
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