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This Cute Chat Site Could Save Your Life And Help Overthrow Your Government (Wired)

This Cute Chat Site Could Save Your Life And Help Overthrow Your Government (Wired)

Posted Aug 2, 2012 21:40 UTC (Thu) by dkg (subscriber, #55359)
Parent article: This Cute Chat Site Could Save Your Life And Help Overthrow Your Government (Wired)

Chris Soghoian's "Tech journalists: Stop hyping unproven security tools" offers a dose of much-needed sobriety about this kind of article.


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This Cute Chat Site Could Save Your Life And Help Overthrow Your Government (Wired)

Posted Aug 3, 2012 15:39 UTC (Fri) by arafel (subscriber, #18557) [Link]

Indeed. In particular people need to read http://www.matasano.com/articles/javascript-cryptography/ (linked from his article).

Essentially, not only is CryptoCat unsecure, it cannot be made secure.

on CryptoCat's security

Posted Aug 19, 2012 10:33 UTC (Sun) by sumanah (guest, #59891) [Link]

Responses to Chris Soghoian to also read: Ryan Singel, Quinn Norton.

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