John McAfee releases secure anti-surveillance messaging app ‘Chadder’
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Re: John McAfee releases secure anti-surveillance messaging app ‘Chadder’
#2wow, that's a distracting background. Also the video doesn't explain how the key exchange works, and isn't that the important/hard bit?
Re: John McAfee releases secure anti-surveillance messaging app ‘Chadder’
#3Even if it's not directly relevant to the product in question but I always think it's a bit weird to promote a "secure" product and don't even have SSL enabled on your own website. It's not like it's expensive to get a simple certificate these days.
Re: John McAfee releases secure anti-surveillance messaging app ‘Chadder’
#4Free software is a prerequisite for software to be "anti-surveillance" and I see no indication that Chadder is free software.
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#5Why do people keep releasing messaging applications? These things rarely, if ever catch on.
Awaiting the inevitable HN thread about how Chadder is flawed.
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#6If that's how they designed the website, I'm a little scared to download the app.
Also, no iOS?
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#7So how does it do that encryption? Through magic?
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#8Only explanation they give is that it "uses encryption" and that should make the app trustworthy? Is this a joke?
Re: John McAfee releases secure anti-surveillance messaging app ‘Chadder’
#9Having access to source is no guarantee of security or correctness (see Heartbleed) but relying on any of these secure messaging apps seems optimistic. Writing correct crypto code is hard and John McAfee's involvement offers no assurances.
Re: John McAfee releases secure anti-surveillance messaging app ‘Chadder’
#10Anyone care to explain how this is supposed to work? If Chadder don't store or transmit the key, how does the person I'm sending a message to have it?
The ambiguity in the way the video explained it makes me a bit suspicious.