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Is it? It is also what Edward Snowden said.
by aw3c2 11y ago
Is it? It is also what Edward Snowden said.
- tptacek 11y agoIn fact, he may have even said it on Cryptocat; Poitras and Greenwald used it to collaborate with him. Snowden also used Lavabit to send email. Why? Because Lavabit had superior UX to his other options --- because Lavabit handled all the crypto serverside. NSA has presumably read everything he sent on both of those systems. Despite the extreme ease of use both systems boasted, they were both so badly designed that they enabled retroactive decryption. So I think, if that was an attempt at a rebuttal, it was not a very effective one.
- mynewtb 11y agoSo they used bad products because their UX was good. That seems to be grandparent's point?
- tptacek 11y agoSecure messaging products with good UX and bad security should wait to launch until they can have good security; the alternative puts people at risk, as it did to Snowden.
- mynewtb 11y agoThey should but they don't. That's why have competitive UX is important for the good tools or people won't even consider using them. We have seen that happen countless times.