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

[stef]

On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 10:41:35PM +0200, Stephan Neuhaus wrote:
> On 2014-07-24, 18:16, stef wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 04:06:03PM +0200, Stephan Neuhaus wrote:
> >> So if I mention to you that a certain app just happens to run on a
> >> smartphone, your Spidey-sense would be tingling, no matter if the app
> >> has had excellent threat modelling, code audit etc?
> > 
> > it's rule of thumb. right? there might be exceptions (i know of exactly one),
> > which strengthen the rule ;)
> 
> Sorry to insist, but I gave you a concrete app, namely safeslinger:
> https://www.cylab.cmu.edu/safeslinger/ Do you think that it is snake oil?

unless it is being deployed for confidentiality defending against only low level
adversaries (but by stating this i already narrowed down the threat-model
significantly). i believe so. it is an app, nothing more.

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