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2/4 of the links in your sources don't work. I don't see any evidence that the OTF is a front for the NSA, or that you think somebody with the capability to ma
by DKnoll 9y ago
2/4 of the links in your sources don't work.
I don't see any evidence that the OTF is a front for the NSA, or that you think somebody with the capability to make that in a year would sell their soul for $455,000.
- geofft 9y agoThe OTF is specifically a (non-secret) front for Radio Free Asia, whose mission is to work in other countries against their NSA equivalents. The best thing the OTF can do is to fund actually honestly secure crypto, because if there's a hidden weakness the NSA can use, there's too much of a risk that one of the countries Radio Free Asia is trying to work against is going to find it. (Yes, technically, a keyed "backdoor" would work and allow the NSA alone to hold the corresponding private key, but also Signal's client code is public so there isn't really a place to put one of those without anyone noticing.)
- pvg 9y agowhose mission is to work in other countries against their NSA equivalents. That's not really a sensible way to describe either their officially stated or inferred mission.
- geofft 9y agoMaybe s/against their NSA equivalents/against government oppression/ would be more accurate - partly because that's what their mission actually is, partly because in theory the NSA isn't an agent of government oppression in the US. (But that's what the worry about NSA funding Signal is about.)