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Besides the obvious "why care about security when Facebook has your data", this is a very positive move. One thing is giving your data to companies and another
by carlesfe 11y ago
Besides the obvious "why care about security when Facebook has your data", this is a very positive move.
One thing is giving your data to companies and another one is living on a country where there is not free speech, your beliefs/lifestyle/genetics are illegal, etc. More encryption is always a good thing.
By the way, the article links to an official FB Onion site. Neat!
- pyre 11y ago> "why care about security when Facebook has your data" (not specifically responding to you, just a general response) Facebook and the NSA aren't the only threats to protect yourself from. Improvements to security aren't bad just because they aren't absolute 100% solutions.
- kpcyrd 11y agoThis could be an attempt to correlate gpg keys to facebook accounts. Also, make sure you're verifying the key out of band after you've pulled it from facebook. /paranoia
- mirimir 11y agoEach pseudonym needs its own GnuPG key. And there can't be any overlap in usage, signatures, etc. Just sayin'.
- Sami_Lehtinen 11y agoSo what, gpg keys are unlimited resource. Just generate new ones whenever required. I've been using that strategy. Just like you don't want to reuse your password everywhere. If you don't want to be anonymous anymore, you can sign nonce with your official and with your temporary key. Some seem to claim that OpenPGP doesn't support ephemeral keys, but it does. You just need to generate new keys and use those, when ever you want/need to.
- mike_hearn 11y agoThe point of this is to hide the data from gmail/hotmail/yahoo/other mail providers. Not Facebook themselves, obviously.