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I think that's unfair - both text secure and cryptocat are interested in making secure chat more accessible. Making security applications accessible is an impo

I think that's unfair - both text secure and cryptocat are interested in making secure chat more accessible. Making security applications accessible is an important problem to try and solve. Security is difficult and I think they were fairly up front with the potential issues with what they were building. They've also been doing it for a few years now, the code is open source, they've had professional security audits - what more could they possibly be doing?

phaer 13y ago
Your parent was talking about Telegram, not TextSecure. The quality of the formers crypto is much more controversial than the latter.
MichaelGG 13y ago
TextSecure is solid as far as I know. What I meant with my comment is that Cryptocat/Telegram put marketing and accessibility over security. They rather sell a veneer of security in a cute package instead of actual security, along with the difficult problems it brings. Both products ignored (and actually told off) expert advice, which is quite telling. IIRC, TextSecure was created by crypto expert[s].