Notepad++ V 7.3.3 – Fix CIA Hacking Notepad++ Issue

Re:Notepad++ V 7.3.3 – Fix CIA Hacking Notepad++ Issue by rspeer on Thursday March 09, 2017 @03:54AM (#13828045)

The reporting you're talking about has been widely denounced by actual security experts, with 70 of them signing a letter asking the Guardian to retract its inaccurate story. Your position is about as responsible as saying "I don't trust vaccines, they kill people".

http://technosociology.org/?page_id=1687

Get off the FUD brigade.

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Re:Notepad++ V 7.3.3 – Fix CIA Hacking Notepad++ Issue by sangnoir on Thursday March 09, 2017 @06:12AM (#13828517)

It's not FUD: it's just a threat model WhatsApp and those experts do not care for, or alternatively think is a worthy the UI/UX trade-off.

FWIW, I strongly disagree with this stance: if the recipient's key changes while the message is in-flight, that message should never be resent/delivered without the sender's explicit approval. Imagine that Bob is a political activist planning a protest. Bob is wondering why his IMs to a co-conspirator Alice aren't being delivered; Bob's wonder turns to fear when he hears on the news that Alice has been detained. Fear turns into terror when Bob sees his messages subsequently get two blue ticks as WhatsApp happily delivers his IMs to a new phone belonging to the secret police. Only afterwards does WhatsApp notify Bob that Alice's key has changed

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