At 10:20 AM 6/29/2014, you wrote:
any add. info on 'compromised jabber'? Got some hints as well - nothing clear.
"Compromised" is the time's opportunistic word for ever more anti-NSA comsec, mom. Cisco Jabber Client (scroll down): http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/04/11/1291357/-NSA-Kept-You-Unsecure-It-K... " Linked In Microsoft Office + Jabber Listed in Spy Program Specialty" (scroll down) https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130617/13482623512/discovering-names-sec... US Secret Service reportedly rigged access to Jabber to take down Silk Road and others. Can't find reference. Allegations also made against Chaos Computer Club being "compromised." No question that all these could be disinfo ops to distrust the services, discourage use and drive users to less trustworthy servcies. However, the post-Snowden rise in "secure drop boxes," "NSA-proof email," and the bountiful other snake oils by the comsec industry and peculiarly opportunistic do-gooders suggests there are willing and unwilling cooperators with the spooks industry, and not least, the thriving anti-spooks industry consulting the spooks on what can be done "without harming national security." Cypherpunks laid the foundation for this, no question, and a few have gone on to do rather well at working both sides of comsec, that is what comsec has always been: duplicitous, sneaky, treacherous, lying, cheating, why not tell it snakily, downright upright-humans raping the planet and beyond the blob, the stars. Examine speaker bureau offerings for who is traveling the blob peddling prime snake fracking.
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