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If anybody develops a truly secure messaging system, free from NSA's snooping, it won't be Yahoo. Simply because Yahoo is US based and can be secretly forced to
by rorrr2 13y ago
If anybody develops a truly secure messaging system, free from NSA's snooping, it won't be Yahoo. Simply because Yahoo is US based and can be secretly forced to change the code or push a hidden update that will decrypt everything.
And by the way, such systems already exist
1) https://crypto.cat https://crypto.cat (after a few bad releases it looks like they got it right... probably)
2) https://github.com/ChatSecure https://github.com/ChatSecure for iOS
There are a few more:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off-the-Record_Messaging#Native https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off-the-Record_Messaging#Nativ...
- trebor 13y agoThey can be forced to change their code, affecting their endpoints, and acting as a wiretap yes. But in the OP's view he said it was an Open Source protocol, which wouldn't get a lot of "forced/secret patches" because it's too easy to see.
- junto 13y agoThat's why it would need to be open source and available for any security researcher to go looking around. The reason I chose Yahoo, was that they have the marketing clout and the brand to pull this off. This needs to be something that really replaces email, and kicks in into obscurity. Otherwise it is just another hacker tool used by a minority of privacy conscious geeks like us.
- rorrr2 13y agoMost people won't bother compiling from open source. We need a trusted company outside of jurisdiction of all these insane new laws.
- susi22 13y agoSerious question: Could they build their IT center on big boats like casinos? Sure, the traffic would still go through US, but that can be encrypted (with something better than SSL).
- junto 13y agoHow do you power the data centre?
- jeffasinger 13y agoA low latency uplink without a single point of failure is another major problem too.
- uptown 13y agowaves and sea snakes: http://knowledge.allianz.com/environment/energy/?246/sea-snake-the-rise-of-british-hydropower http://knowledge.allianz.com/environment/energy/?246/sea-sna...
- threeseed 13y agoSure they could. They could also spend billions buying every block of lego to create a Yahoo logo visible from space. Which makes about as much sense as introducing significant legal risks to their business all for a few thousand new email accounts.
- rorrr2 13y agoThey could, but that doesn't change anything, Yahoo is still US based and can be forced to do whatever they want.