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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. Don't buy American. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The simple answer: If it's from the USA, it can't be trusted.

    1. Re:Don't buy American. by disambiguated · · Score: 3, Insightful

      How are you going to test a CPU? Unless you analyze the circuits physically, how are you going to do that it doesn't allow privileged instructions in unprivledged code e.g. when r14=6368696e65736520, r15=6261636b646f6f72?