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GUADEC: Danny O'Brien on privacy, encryption, and the desktop

GUADEC: Danny O'Brien on privacy, encryption, and the desktop

Posted Aug 7, 2010 1:04 UTC (Sat) by dannyobrien (subscriber, #25583)
In reply to: GUADEC: Danny O'Brien on privacy, encryption, and the desktop by pj
Parent article: GUADEC: Danny O'Brien on privacy, encryption, and the desktop

Funnily enough, an app like that is exactly what I ended up discussing with a few people after the keynote. I think the tough problem is having a heuristic that can say "this is (probably) encrypted". Perhaps better to see it as a developer utility (a sort of netlint) rather than a user warning system.

Writing a doorman monitor for users, which would look for and complain about outgoing traffic would be a lower-hanging fruit.


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