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Is Surespot the Latest Crypto War Victim?
George Maschke writes: Patrick G. Eddington writes in a Christian Science Monitor op-ed about indications that the government may be snooping on users of Surespot, a free and open source encrypted messaging app for Android and iOS. Such users include, but are hardly limited to, Islamic State militants. He writes in the piece: "Has encrypted chat service Surespot been compromised by the US government? Surespot user and former Army intelligence officer George Maschke recently published a provocative theory suggesting the answer is yes. Mr. Maschke’s key pieces of evidence are intriguing. In May 2014, he e-mailed 2Fours LLC, which is Surespot’s parent company, asking whether the company had ever received a National Security Letter (NSL), a court order to provide information, or other government request to cooperate in an investigation. He was assured in writing that 2Fours had received no such requests. That changed in November 2014, when Surespot’s founder, Adam Patacchiola, told Maschke via e-mail that 'we have received an e-mail asking us how to submit a subpoena to us which we haven’t received yet.'"
and we act accordingly.
ignorance is bliss
What a waste! The only thing even close to being secure are the Sunday classifieds and the Hollywood tabloids... Like they say, just broadcast it wide open, nobody will see it.
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
If they're still in business, they're compromised:
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/20/why-did-lavabit-shut-down-snowden-email
If you're going to end your summary with something that happened in November 2014, you could at least hint that there are further developments to be read about in the article, even if you can't be bothered to copy-and-paste those into the summary itself.
TL;DR: no-one at Surespot is answering questions about whether or not they've had any Gubmint interference, and someone who used to work there, but doesn't any more, won't talk to anyone about it either.
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
hey, just tape it to the side of your computer. it'll get there if it's supposed to. trust me.
if this is supposed to be a new economy, how come they still want my old fashioned money?
Ironic warrant canary is ironic.
And if they are, wanna bet they're snooping on everyone? like with Lavabit. It's not just "we want to snoop on just these people who we think are a threat". It's "we want everyone".
Surespot, a free and open source encrypted messaging app for Android and iOS. Such users include, but are hardly limited to, Islamic State militants.
Endorsed by people who trust it with their lives.
Don't waste your vote! Vote for whoever you want, unless you live in a swing state it won't matter anyways
The company was started by the NSA. There was never a need to breach them.
No exceptions.
The really important stuff should be kept among confidants, and discussed as little as is necessary.
Important records can still be kept in hard copy if you really need to write stuff down.
Assume everything you say may be taken out of context and without including your sarcastic tone.
I do not think "protect our freedoms" means what you think it means...
That's what they're doing.
As always, all IMO. Insert "I think" everywhere grammatically possible.
Or maybe the opposite is true... maybe Surespot is secure.. .thus an attempt to discredit it.
This is the world of "intelligence". Until people wise up their is nothing "intelligent" about the current path of spening billions destroying data security rather than creating it.. we'll get our wish of insecure systems. Not a single computer with commodity components on the Internet today is safe because of these attitudes. Wish I could point to only one country's government as being the problem but its really most of them.
Surespot is most likely toast now. I see two possible attacks from someone who controls the servers:
Any serious security company should have one.