Re:BlackBerry cofounder Jim Balsillie is sounding the alarm ...
by mirimir on Friday April 12, 2019 @01:31AM
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Those are great criteria. But I would add that it should be P2P, with anonymized addresses. Such as Tox or Ring, where users run Tor onion services.
And if there must be central servers, they should also have anonymized addresses, and the owners and admins should be anonymous. Adversaries can't coerce people, if they can't identify or locate them. Even so, having central servers is a weakness to be avoided.
Just as with RIM:
> RIM, unlike rivals Nokia and Apple, operates its own network through secure servers located in Canada and other countries such as Britain.
Those were not secure servers. Because RIM was coerced into compromising them.
And if there must be central servers, they should also have anonymized addresses, and the owners and admins should be anonymous. Adversaries can't coerce people, if they can't identify or locate them. Even so, having central servers is a weakness to be avoided.
Just as with RIM:
> RIM, unlike rivals Nokia and Apple, operates its own network through secure servers located in Canada and other countries such as Britain.
Those were not secure servers. Because RIM was coerced into compromising them.