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One of the greatest heroes we have to thank are Diffie and Hellman who put up a fight when US government went against their research on public key cryptography. But I suppose the r…

"Often hear that the reason today’s Internet is not more secure is that the early designers failed to imagine that security could ever matter." Related to this, you should definite…

It's also unethical to solve world hunger by feeding the poor to the hungry. If defending is done not by installing firewalls, but by spying on everyone in case they do something b…

Not sure if the article claims Eric Schmidt was ousted. But Schmidt has worked for the pentagon since 2016 http://money.cnn.com/2016/03/02/technology/eric-schmidt-pent...

Aral Balkan has excellent things to say about charades such as "privacy on facebook": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jh8supIUj6c#t=34m10s All in all, this is a great talk, I highl…

What are the benefits of decentralized servers over p2p? "Metadata concern is bogus" yet the linked documentation explicitly says bridges expose metadata, and that home servers exp…

Makes sense only if he didn't spend the $19,000,000,000 on one go when FB bought WhatsApp.

So, what are you using the 15,800 MB of RAM for?

Fully agree and I want to elaborate. After SHA-1 broke, IETF's OpenPGP work group have failed the community by wrestling hand over what hash function should be in 5th revision of f…

You mean, Matrix does not pose arbitrary limitations to clients that want to use end-to-end encryption. Clients that do not yet feature it by default, and that give huge warnings w…

https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/1177.pdf

Quoting Moxie: THere's nothing to be broken because there's no end-to-end encryption to begin with. Do you think nation state hackers publish their finding about the trove of priva…

Telegram is exactly as secure as email. SSL where third party email servers can see your traffic.

"I have yet to see satisfactory cryptanalysis that shows a weakness (theoretical or real) in the protocol": https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/1177.pdf

Yet the developer is world famous for his security work, not for something like inventing Facebook for Russians. Are you sure you can handle 100% anonymous connection to servers of…