Re:Surespot app - free and open source encryption for everyone
by StavrosK on Monday September 02, 2013 @05:13AM
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Well, they didn't say "reliably". Many apps do this on a best-effort basis, it's usually good enough but people shouldn't trust it too much.
Re:Surespot app - free and open source encryption for everyone
by kivikakk on Monday September 02, 2013 @06:33AM
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Sure, but it's the #2 bullet-point on their home page, and they don't use the word reliably, but:
> Be confident sending private information and pictures.
... be confident? That kinda implies it's reliable enough to be confident in it.
Re:Surespot app - free and open source encryption for everyone
by dalore on Monday September 02, 2013 @07:21AM
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Snapchat which is an app that lets you send a time limited picture deletes it when you view it. You can't view the message without their client.
Of course you can take a screenshot of the image, but they have figured out how to capture that event and it alerts the sender.
That second bullet point set off my BS detector (and is where I stopped reading). No system on earth lets you reliably delete a message sent to another device over the Internet, after the fact. Neither can any such system reliably prevent users from sharing pictures that they can see on their device.
This site reads like an add for a perpetual motion engine.
Which is too bad, because open-source encrypted mobile chat is an interesting thing in and of itself, without impossible pie-in-the-sky claims.