Re:Lavabit’s founder responds to cryptographer’s criticism
by DanBC on Friday November 08, 2013 @11:43AM
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> I'm not sure if you guys are just incredibly naive or if you lack common business sense or what the deal is. This is akin to bitching that Tesla isn't really "environmentally friendly" because they make electric cars and you really need cars that run on unicorn farts to be truly carbon neutral.
Someone releases a product. They say "This product is secure against well funded government agencies. It's secure against correctly-formed legal documented requests". Someone else comes along and points out that, in fact, it isn't secure against those threats.
That's not wanting a Unicorn-fart powered crypto system. That's just pointing out that a product doesn't, can't, work as advertised.
Some people get tortured or killed by their governments for saying the wrong thing, so it seems reasonable to point out that their communications might not be secure.
Someone releases a product. They say "This product is secure against well funded government agencies. It's secure against correctly-formed legal documented requests". Someone else comes along and points out that, in fact, it isn't secure against those threats.
That's not wanting a Unicorn-fart powered crypto system. That's just pointing out that a product doesn't, can't, work as advertised.
Some people get tortured or killed by their governments for saying the wrong thing, so it seems reasonable to point out that their communications might not be secure.