Or use TextSecure and RedPhone: https://whispersystems.org/ (https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure/)
John McAfee releases secure anti-surveillance messaging app ‘Chadder’
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#12So the client is open source but the server and backend isn't, same as Telegram? What is the point? That and McAfee doesn't exactly inspire confidence.
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#13Having 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.
Especially since his stint with the authoroties of Belize and his subsequent escape from said country... I thought it was a very entertaining story, but professional suicide for him.
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#14They didn't even capitalize his last name properly:
We are also very excited to announce our partnership
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#15So that's an iPhone screenshot on what appears to be a Nexus 4 without the navigation buttons with the android contact icons but there isn't even an iOS version yet. The first screenshot in the playstore shows the windows phone version and the second is the actual android version, what?
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#16McAfee ceased to be a brand that you'd want to be associated with a while ago, I wonder what they intend to achieve by attaching their reputation to his.
Toxic doesn't even begin to describe it, he's the IT world equivalent of a rogue.
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#17So the client is open source but the server and backend isn't, same as Telegram? What is the point? That and McAfee doesn't exactly inspire confidence.
Where do you see the client sources?
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#18Anything that claims to do 'APP X' with 'encryption' these days should not put itself out there without posting a full (and RECENT) security audit by an un-biased third party.
Otherwise, I'm going to assume you are still leaky as hell, make mistakes and have not cleaned up your code, etc.
And no, claiming you are 'open source' doesn't cover it (And I Don't even have to refer to Heartbleed here)
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#19McAfee ceased to be a brand that you'd want to be associated with a while ago, I wonder what they intend to achieve by attaching their reputation to his. Toxic doesn't even begin to describe it, he's the IT world equivalent of a rogue.
One would presume because "he is/was a fugitive, so he really understands the need of that underrepresented user community".
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#20If the source code isn't available then any claims to being secure should be treated cautiously. For instance, how do we know that there aren't heartbleed-style errors in this anti-surveillance app?