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I'm disappointed that TextSecure is moving from one of the last deployed federated platforms (SMS) to their own closed transport. :(
by aftbit 12y ago
I'm disappointed that TextSecure is moving from one of the last deployed federated platforms (SMS) to their own closed transport. :(
- pgeorgi 12y agoNot sure if "federated because ITU members can hook up their own processing" is federated in any meaningful way.
- dredmorbius 12y agoIf the system used SMS proxied by TextSecure, that would have at least avoided net-of-endpoint pen trace. You'd know who TextSecure's customers were, and could probably use time-based analysis to see who is likely to be talking to whom (a steady stream of non-content messages would otherwise have to be used to mask significant messages). The context analysis sideband leakage is the big win here for a data-based approach.
- blfr 12y agoThe plan is to move towards a federated structure of their own. I think right now CyanogenMod operates its own TextSecure servers.
- dredmorbius 12y agoWell: their own infrastructure over data transport rather than SMS/MMS