[Cryptography] Release of Smoke - Android Crypto Chat App - on Tuesday (#4thofJuly)

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Beware, this appears to be produced by the same group that is behind
the goldbug, echo, spot-on, dooble, etc line of highly questionable
applications.

This announcement was bcc'd to me while obviously already here,
that's stupid so I'll bash them for that game too. Note also their
renewed attempt at EFF alignment, this time by copying the
visual recognition of the EFF scorecard model. Hi EFF :)

Reviewing their code is highly encouraged, even people creating
a bounty for doing that... after all, outing possibly big scam
organizations like this is just as credworthy as earning the next
CVE for rooting the OpenBSD kernel, etc.

Anonymous development is a legitimate thing,
however this group is just bizarre.

Given their ethical and other issues called out earlier on these
lists (search: goldbug)... be *extremely* careful before elevating
any of their suite to anything more than nonproduction snakeoil.


On Sun, Jul 2, 2017 at 12:30 PM, Peter Underwood
<amoleddisplay at gmail.com> wrote:
> Smoke - Open Crypto Chat Client with Open Crypto Chat Server Release on
> #4thofJuly:
> https://smokeappope.sourceforge.io
>
> SmokeStack release - the first open mobile crypto-handlling chat-server on
> Android
> https://smokeappope.sourceforge.io/#Smokestack
>
> Release of the Mobile ScoreCard for Encrypting Chat Applications on mobile
> devices:
> https://smokeappope.sourceforge.io/#MobileScoreCard
> https://smokeappope.sourceforge.io/mobilescorecard.png
>
>
> Smoke is the mobile crypto chat, which is open source, allows you to use
> your own decentral chat server, does not send your phone number to central
> servers or friends, and fifth, is able to define your own end-to-end
> enctypting passwords manually by your individual choice.
> So far no other application might match these five criteria.
>
> Further SmokeStack seems to be one of the first open source crypto chat
> server on mobiles (Android).