Notices by Klaus Jónsson Zimmermann (alternative acc) (kzimmermann2)
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Klaus Jónsson Zimmermann (alternative acc) (kzimmermann2)'s status on Friday, 20-Jan-2017 02:13:56 CET Klaus Jónsson Zimmermann (alternative acc) 1. WhatsApp has a backdoor that can be used to decrypt your "end-to-end encrypted" texts.
2. People discover said backdoor (I guess through poking around or reverse engineering, since it's proprietary and code inspection isn't possible) and warn WhatsApp about it.
3. WhatsApp acknowledges existence of backdoor, says it's intentional ("it's not a bug, that's our design!") and they won't bother fixing it.
4. Millions of people continue using communications that can be actively intercepted, because they were told that some "encryption" thing they know nothing about would protect them.
Why am I not surprised here?
https://gnusocial.club/url/40013
Don't use #WhatsApp. Just don't.
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Klaus Jónsson Zimmermann (alternative acc) (kzimmermann2)'s status on Sunday, 25-Dec-2016 21:52:15 CET Klaus Jónsson Zimmermann (alternative acc) Here's the thing: if you fear #Tor so much that you want to block access from it, put up a message to its visitors stating that. Don't instead feign an error message or pretend that something with the connection went wrong, which can confuse the user into thinking your site is down ("Unable to connect", "The connection has timed out").
I'm tired of receiving "errors" like these lately only to use a webproxy like Anonymouse.org to quickly unmask the intention of the admin. I mean, what good does lying do in this case? Just fucking say it. Even a shitty #Cloudflare captcha is better than a misleading error message.