John McAfee releases secure anti-surveillance messaging app ‘Chadder’

Post by steauengeglase » Mon, May 05, 2014, 11:56 AM UTC

jacquesm wrote: post #16

McAfee 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.

Post by sajithdilshan » Mon, May 05, 2014, 12:04 PM UTC

phpnode wrote: post #2

wow, that's a distracting background. Also the video doesn't explain how the key exchange works, and isn't that the important/hard bit?

Post by [deleted] » Mon, May 05, 2014, 12:04 PM UTC

casca wrote: post #9

Having 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.

Post by a1a » Mon, May 05, 2014, 12:06 PM UTC

chrisdevereux wrote: post #10

Anyone 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.

Post by id » Mon, May 05, 2014, 12:06 PM UTC

FBT wrote: post #21

davexunit wrote: post #4

Free software is a prerequisite for software to be "anti-surveillance" and I see no indication that Chadder is free software.

Libre is a prerequisite, gratis isn't. This is an important distinction to make. While it is true that this software seems to be neither, it is important to note when we try to convince them to release it free, we mean libre and not necessarily gratis . (Although the two often go hand in hand.) When people hear us complaining about it, they often think we want to avoid paying money for it. This is false, and a bad im…