Snowden triggers flood of Crapware [was: Gruveo, more secure skype?]

[rysiek]

Dnia środa, 23 lipca 2014 23:59:25 stef pisze:
> On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 05:24:22PM -0400, grarpamp wrote:
> > To quote OP... not open source.. not audited.. central servers.. webrtc..
> > 'no' logs.. and a shiny link for grins... and then claims it 'looks very
> > interesting and promising'. WTF, really? I appreciate innocent questions,
> > but the answer (or at least our response) should be obvious, from those
> > parameters alone, to someone who's been around for a while.
> 
> exactly this prompted me to come up with the seven rules of thumb to detect
> snakeoil:
> 
>     not free software
>     runs in a browser
>     runs on a smartphone
>     the user doesn't generate, or exclusively own the private encryption
> keys there is no threat model
>     uses marketing-terminology like "cyber", "military-grade"
>     neglects general sad state of host security

So very true. Can we have it named as "stef's six rules of snakeoilness" and 
spread around? I'm serious, this is important.

-- 
Pozdr
rysiek
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