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Cryptocat's hacktivist credibility was cemented in 2012 when its Canadian developer, Nadim Kobeissi, was stopped at the US border and interviewed about his
by oinksoft 13y ago
Cryptocat's hacktivist credibility was cemented in 2012 when
its Canadian developer, Nadim Kobeissi, was stopped at the
US border and interviewed about his Cryptocat-related
programming activities.
s/was/claimed to be/. This software clearly is not Ft. Knox, and its becoming less and less believable that US intelligence would ever feel the need to interrogate the author of an open source project, and with such brittle security, about the cryptography techniques used therein.
I find it far more believable that the young developer with a penchant for dramatics and a reply for everything has a talent for PR. And a shallow understanding of the grave consequences of faulty crypto software.
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- marshray 13y agoI believe Nadim is being truthful in that someone at the border asked him about Cryptocat. I think they probably saw his tweets "I'M CROSSING THE BORDER NOW OMG I HOPE THEY DON'T GIVE ME TROUBLE FOR BEING A BIGTIME HACKER ACTIVIST", they Googled him, and asked him about his website.
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- tfgg 13y agoPerhaps the government knew it was flawed and wanted to encourage him by making him feel persecuted?