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> If you want to be secure from the NSA, use TextSecure [...]. It's really that simple. That claim is far too confidant! If you want to be secure from NSA you
by sillysaurus2 13y ago
> If you want to be secure from the NSA, use TextSecure [...]. It's really that simple.
That claim is far too confidant! If you want to be secure from NSA you need to do many things - have a look at the specifications for buildings that handle secret documents for example, as well as just using a piece of well designed but relatively untested software.
That's why I removed it 15 seconds after I wrote it. But perhaps it could be downgraded to "if you want to live in a world where it's very difficult for governments to vacuum up all your data by default, then use TextSecure, because it's the first step towards that." Telegram offers no such protection since it's vulnerable to MITM attacks (even after they fix this one).
- Twirrim 13y agoIf you rely on a single secure (for certain values of the word 'secure') messaging system or protocol you're absolutely insane. You'd want to be splitting your communication across multiple communication sources, with none of them ever seeing enough data to compromise whatever it is you're worried about. Deep and computationally expensive is great; deep, computationally expensive and broad is better. If one form (e.g. Telegraph) falls they've not got the full message, and they've still got a lot more work to do to get the whole thing.