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>has only a fragmentary picture of what's going on in the outside world, based on the little they can discuss openly during visits And his fragmentary picture
by boomboomsubban 5y ago
>has only a fragmentary picture of what's going on in the outside world, based on the little they can discuss openly during visits
And his fragmentary picture includes app recommendations? Skepticism seems like the right call, even though he has a very good reason for his years of silence.
- vintermann 5y agoThe app has been around in some form since 2014. In promoting it, Wikileaks are relating it to discussions in 2011 with Eric Schmidt, then Google chairman, first published in 2014. It's not so surprising that Assange would have had strong opinions on both the limits and opportunities of mesh networking, and knowledge about who were working on it who were competent and had sound ideas. Briar got an independent security audit in 2017.
- boomboomsubban 5y agoEverything you said in this post about Briar is a better reason to use the app than Assanges prison recommendation.
- vintermann 5y agoWell, I'm answering why he would recommend it. But if you couldn't evaluate the technical stuff yourself, you'd do well to trust Assange's (and also Snowden's) recommendation on such things above almost anyone else's.