Re: <nettime> end-to-end encryption digest [x2: boman, kleiner]

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Re: <nettime> end-to-end encryption for the masses

     Magnus Boman <mabmab@gmail.com>
     Dmytri Kleiner <dk@trick.ca>

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From: Magnus Boman <mabmab@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 18:51:57 +0000
Subject: Re: <nettime> end-to-end encryption for the masses

And meanwhile, in Sweden: https://5july.org/what-we-do/projects/
for free encrypted jabber, VPN service, and an idea for a Nobel peace prize.
(One of the three is useless, since Kissinger has one.)
M.

On Wed Nov 19 2014 at 7:35:06 PM abram stern (aphid) <aphid@ucsc.edu> wrote:

> Also relevant, today's announcement by Mozilla and others of a free
> encryption certs via a new public benefit corp/tCA and open source tools to
> deploy this encryption on a site with 2 commands:
> https://letsencrypt.org/2014/11/18/announcing-lets-encrypt.html
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Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 16:12:27 -0500
From: Dmytri Kleiner <dk@trick.ca>
Subject: Re: <nettime> end-to-end encryption for the masses

OK, after I agree to run google play store on my phone along with the 
proprietary whatsapp , I also give my phone number, and the phone number 
of all my contacts to prismbook, and also let them know exactly who I'm 
chatting with and exactly when, and in return they'll OTR encrypt my 
chat messages for me. I see what you did there facebook. Hooray privacy!

On 2014-11-19 11:30, Felix Stalder wrote:

> http://www.wired.com/2014/11/whatsapp-encrypted-messaging/
> 
> Growing up in Soviet Ukraine in the 1980s, Whatsapp founder Jan Koum
> learned to distrust the government and detest its surveillance. After
> he emigrated to the U.S. and created his ultra-popular messaging
> system decades later, he vowed that Whatsapp would never make
> eavesdropping easy for anyone. Now, Whatsapp is following through on
> that anti-snooping promise at an unprecedented scale.
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Dmytri Kleiner
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