GoldBug Messenger Fraud? [was: FBI encrypted app, global arrests]

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"rdohm: the EFF in conjunction with the Chaos Computer Club
announced a new secure Instant Messenger called: GoldBug"

"rdohm: We all need to evaluate this and will come back to you"



> You have to audit the code to claim it is faulty.

No one ever claimed the code was faulty,
only that the group was and is still doing things that
are disreputable... lying about nonexistent press
releases to con users into using it, censoring user
inquiries, refusing to code signing reproducibility, dodging
and faux-assert-confirm based redirecting tactics instead of
simply answering simple questions, and questionable
actions and methods irregular to usual work in the field...
all documented on the internet, which people are too lazy to
follow, to lazy to even get a copy of the PR from the EFF CCC.

The advice has always been to audit code.
Many people won't bother using or auditing
any codes that come from groups that have
disreputed themselves... that works for them.
Others make careers out of analysing malwarez.
And careers spreading it all over the net.

No one ever claimed or forced that dev groups
cannot or should not be anon, that's just as
utterly ridiculous a position as claiming that posing
any given question/request to anon devs is improper,
that such queries are somehow not freespeech,
that the askers should be cancelled.

In fact, other than confidants, and
the NSA GCHQ FBI etc, Satoshi was anon.
(Satoshi never claimed EFF+CCC announced
or had anything to do with Bitcoin, never disreputed
the Bitcoin project by doing any of those type of
shady and suspicious things.)

The world needs anon devs to code the important softwares.
And there are a lot more anon codes coming ;)

Is GoldBug an op... you decide.

Regardless... Expect Ops.