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don't forget the "military grade encryption" NordVPN makes the youtubers include sometimes.
by Kaveren 7y ago
don't forget the "military grade encryption" NordVPN makes the youtubers include sometimes.
- Avamander 7y agoBut if you take a closer look at many of them, they actually do TLSv1.1 with weak primitives, have weak CA certs or other problems in their system.
- mushufasa 7y agoeh. I wouldn't take that as a strike against them. It's pretty impossible to communicate crypto to laypeople using technical language, like AES or even SSL. You have to use analogies, to banks or militaries. For better or worse, that's just how it goes.
- CiPHPerCoder 7y ago> For better or worse, that's just how it goes. No, it isn't. You don't have to use "bank-grade", "military-grade", etc. in your marketing. They don't actually mean anything, and only serve as a red flag for "we don't know what the fuck we're doing". You can use almost-equally meaningless phrases like "state of the art", "industry standard", etc. You can sell on a "proven track record" of not selling out to data brokers or yielding to government search warrants (although that mostly hinges on "never been subpoenaed" rather than "resisted a subpoena" in practical terms). There's lots of other paths to take besides using "${DUMB}-grade" in your marketing copy. Saying "that's just how it goes" is yielding to a lazy cop-out with another lazier cop-out. It absolutely isn't just how it goes.
- mushufasa 7y agoI fail to see how using "equally-meaningless phrases" is worse than using other "equally-meaningless phrases." Nord also says they never hold logs, and locate in Panama to avoid gov't subpoenas. It's not either/or. You can (should) put the technical information on a 'security' page for the people who know enough to find it and read it.