Re: [liberationtech] Silent Circle Dangerous to Cryptography Software Development

On 10/11/2012 2:14 PM, Katrin Verclas wrote:
His entire IP block is connected to servers in the United States. I am very skeptical of that claim. Furthermore, this is nonsense; the issue isn't being protected against *one* country's subpoena, it's being protected against *any* subpoena.
The closed-source nature of the software makes pushing government-mandated backdoors incredibly easy and extremely difficult to detect if done right. This is a tall claim not backed by evidence or the possibility of review.
Silent Phone, Silent Text and Silent Eyes all use peer-to-peer technology and erase the session keys from your device once the call or text is finished. Our servers donbt hold the keysb&you do. Our secure encryption keeps unauthorized people from understanding your transmissions. It keeps criminals, governments, business rivals, neighbors and identity thieves from stealing your data and from destroying your personal or corporate privacy. There are no back doors, nor will there ever be.
...unless they're served a court order, in which case Silent Circle will either implement a backdoor or go to jail, thank you very much.
More importantly, Zimmerman noted that Silent Circle code will be made available for audit.
Skype, too, says that its code is available for audit, and then only lets a single academic audit it via an auditing that they themselves fund. This is likely PR; I will not be satisfied unless anyone can audited the code, and the source code is kept updated with every new release.
This is just really scary -- a piece of closed source, unaudited, unverifiable software that costs money for corporations, but is free for activists?
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