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Apple also weirdly limits the capabilities available to free developer accounts, like AutoFill and built-in IPSec/IKEv2 VPN support. https://help.apple.com/developer-account/#/dev2…

If you didn't trust the closed source disassembler you use, for whatever reason, you would verify the assembly output, not the actual software. In practice this is often done unint…

This is a good point, which should be brought up more. Although you probably meant key id or key fingerprint, not keyserver ID, which would imply something else. You're supposed to…

Linux/BSD distribution mirrors don't control the package signing keys, maintainers do. Similarly, Google doesn't possess the ability to push out updates for third-party apps, witho…

No, there's no effective difference between those examples, apart from maybe post mortem analysis. It's also a poor method of key discovery, as hueving said.

It doesn't take ridiculous confidence to analyze shell scripts. In the hundreds of scripts I have read, few were more than 100 lines long. It shouldn't take more than 60 seconds (p…

I agree with you that Keybase should release their backend code. My comment about (server source code- derived) trust was made in the context of users who would remain using the of…

I didn’t dispute the description of Keybase being labeled a walled garden. I opposed it being too-broadly called proprietary, when it’s not — only the backend is. And for anyone on…

I'm glad the mobile apps don't download code, and I really appreciate the correction on Lavabit; ugh, that project was embarrassing. I'm personally not happy with auditing local cl…

Considering the whole point of end-to-end encryption is to reduce or eliminate necessary trust in the middleman, this seems like a minor, but still valid concern. Open sourcing the…

Proprietary? The backend maybe, but the keybase clients are open source. Some of the code is a little rough, and completed API docs would be nice, especially concerning KBFS, which…

The quote is from the front page of protonmail.com, and it's been there since 2015. As the only description of encryption on the front page, it gives the unequivocal impression tha…

secured automatically with end-to-end encryption is a funny way of saying secured automatically with TLS. If some messages are being encrypted on the server, then it's not end-to-e…

I mean, if you want visceral, there is this shameful email from Dan Harkins: https://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/tls/current/msg10971.h...

I think this sentiment explains half of the negative reactions I’ve seen towards Moxie over the years. I guess it pays to be likeable.

I don't know if this is correct, but, I once got the impression that Signal Desktop was under the sole purview of a new hire at OWS. In other words, Moxie doesn't review the commit…

Given the absent security of desktop Linux, and the dreadful opsec of its users, as revealed by many cryptocurrency wallet thefts, I wouldn't place much trust in persistent PGP sec…

Signal, WhatsApp, Matrix et al. show notifications when the participant’s device keys change. You’re right that most users don’t verify. The opportunity for detection or prevention…

Again, you can be sure, by comparing the safety numbers. It's the same as comparing SSH or GPG key fingerprints. If someone else masquerades as Bob, the numbers won't match. See se…

It isn't. I rarely send sensitive messages, however, so I feel that some surveillance potential is acceptable, to save time and effort. The few times where I did, I first verified …

Signal doesn't entrust security to carriers. Messages are sent E2E encrypted to the registered device over the internet. If someone MitMs a device, the safety numbers would not mat…

Unbound lets you forward queries to nameservers matched by the query (sub-)domain. *.internal queries can be sent to the local nameserver, for example, while others can be forwarde…

https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/26589529219124838... Edit: https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/40897761692683059... https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/418…

Here's an alternative to wrapping GPG, using .gnupg/gpg.conf: personal-cipher-preferences AES256 AES personal-digest-preferences SHA256 SHA512 personal-compress-preferences Uncompr…