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The Fight Over the EFF's Secure Messaging Scoreboard

Posted by samzenpus on from the making-the-grade dept.

blottsie writes The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)'s new Secure Messaging Scorecard is designed to answer one important question: Which apps and tools actually keep your messages secure and safe from prying eyes? The results have been mixed. In the midst of many positive reactions from technology companies and users, the scorecard stoked a wave of criticism from several prominent figures in the security industry, who deemed the effort inaccurate, misleading, and vague."

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  1. Actual link to the EFF 'scorecard' by Wootery · · Score: 5, Informative

    The actual 'scorecard' can be found here. No need to go to extremes and RTFA.

    [Snarky comment about sloppy /. submissions.]

  2. Re:OpenPGP by disambiguated · · Score: 4, Informative

    Found a nice simple explanation of how this works here. There is a secret somewhere that isn't compromised, but it is ephemeral and isn't ever stored anywhere or transmitted. So that's what you meant by "long term". It's very clever. Makes perfect sense now, but it's counterintuitive, at least to me.

    Anyway, thanks. I learned something new, which is why I still come to /.