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by moxie 12y ago
Open Whisper Systems ➡ San Francisco ➡ Full Time Open Whisper Systems is focused on making private communication simple. Our technology is used by hundreds of millions of people, and everything we produce is open source. ★ Design Lead -- He
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https://whispersystems.org/blog/asynchronous-security/ https://whispersystems.org/blog/advanced-ratcheting/ https://whispersystems.org/blog/simplifying-otr-deniabili
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I'm not really positioning TextSecure as a secure mail solution, but this article says that the TextSecure protocol can't support asynchronous operations or federated namespaces. To clarify, that's incorrect, the TextSecure
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I don't have a definite answer. There's the path we're executing on at Open Whisper Systems, but there are a bunch of other projects working in this area as well (Mailpile, LEAP, etc). I think the problems are solvable, but
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A lot of the comments I've been getting are in the genre of "well... but GPG works." Yes, GPG is a powerful tool that makes some encrypted communication possible . But is it really "working" if it's the tool
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This 'WhisperSystems' account is not controlled by anyone associated with the Open Whisper Systems project. Whoever this is, please stop claiming to represent us.
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Open Whisper Systems ( https://whispersystems.org ) - Bay Area - Full time - Lead iOS Developer and Lead Designer. No security or cryptography background needed. Open Whisper Systems is working to make private communication simple
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by moxie 12y ago
I loved They Live before the pervert's guide to ideology, but you're right that this post is probably derivative of the latter. It's just a daily blog post that we're doing as part of Winter Break Of Code, and wasn&#x27
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This is a great example of deceptive marketing at work. You can check out their API here: https://core.telegram.org/methods#working-with-messages ...where's the encryption on message histories? There is none. If th
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There's been a lot of controversy over the Telegram encryption protocol. Any cryptographer that looks at it cringes, but Telegram has deep pockets and has done a decent job building hype. Beyond doubts with the protocol itself, I thin
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IIRC they gave these out at the first Java One. You could program it with what kind of coffee you liked, and hold it up to the coffee machines there. At the time I worked at a company that also had a JavaStation (basically a SPARC that onl
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We've noticed that some people have problems when they do weird stuff to their phones. We use GCM for delivery, so that can stop working with a custom gapps install, or a rooted firewall setup, or disabled background data for gcm. We
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At this point Google pretty much controls the future of web-oriented internet protocols, since they control the client in the form of Chrome, as well as the server in the form of Google properties. What they do is basically what goes. Peop
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by moxie 12y ago
I don't know what to say, except that you're right . This is the problem that Tor is trying to solve, which is why Tor gets to claim that it is "anonymous," and random websites or apps don't get to make that claim
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Based on your own comments here, it sounds like the reporting is entirely accurate. You're attempting to justify why you're tracking your users, but you're still tracking them. You've highlighted many of the hard proble
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by moxie 12y ago
It was interesting to see that Uber is providing financial support for police militarization: https://twitter.com/shane_bauer/status/507978633894313985 Shane Bauer's full coverage of the "Urban Shield&qu
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Inside the Wild, Shadowy, and Highly Lucrative Bail Industry(motherjones.com)
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One Simple Way To Support #Ferguson(maskmagazine.com)
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Hey, Step Back with The Riot Shaming(maskmagazine.com)
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What They Mean when They Say Peace(crimethinc.com)
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by moxie 12y ago
Thanks! You can support ongoing development by sending donations to our BitHub. Anyone who commits to an Open Whisper Systems repository will get 2% of your donation: https://whispersystems.org/blog/bithub/ The da
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At Open Whisper Systems, we wrote a small open source gradle plugin called "gradle-witness" for this reason. Not just because dependencies could be transported over an insecure channel, but also because dependencies could be comp
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by moxie 12y ago
1. You can replace your Google sync account with Flock if you choose. You can import data from a Google account into your Flock account without destroying or altering the data in your Google account. 2. The Flock encryption is used for tra
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by moxie 12y ago
With Google Sync, the servers have access to your plaintext data. This means that Google Inc, the engineers at Google with access to the servers, any attackers that compromise Google's sync servers, or any governments that compel Goog
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by moxie 12y ago
I know a lot is happening with FarmBot right now, and that they've talked about doing larger-area experiments. You might consider getting in touch with them: http://go.farmbot.it/
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> 1. What is TextSecure's business model? Who pays for the server infrastructure? It's a good question. TextSecure is not a business, so we don't really have a business model in the traditional sense. Open Whisper System
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Browser support. We've got major internet sites on board waiting to deploy it, but despite some early indications of support, the browsers have not been forthcoming. We even tried writing the code for them, but to little avail. My sens
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by moxie 13y ago
To clarify, these audits aren't a choice , they are a contractual obligation as part of receiving grant funding from OTF. Projects are allowed some flexibility in terms of when they schedule it, but it has to be done. I think it&#x2
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by moxie 13y ago
These are bugs, but I'm not sure they are what you think they are. I would be worried if TextSecure indicates a message is going to be sent securely, but it is sent insecurely. This bug, however, is an edge case where TextSecure indi
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by moxie 13y ago
Prisoners in the USA are, in fact, put into solitary for some pretty arbitrary reasons, including the types of books they read. You might find this article by Shane Bauer, one of the hostages held by Iran, interesting: http://ww

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