Re: "Revealed: how Microsoft handed the NSA access to encrypted messages"

Mark Watson:
> Just to re-iterate, the intention is that the closed software comes
> from, or is at least well understood by, your browser implementor or
> your OS implementor. I believe you have bigger problems if you don't
> trust either of those.

One of the reasons for Open Source software is that one does not need to
trust an implementer.

> Furthermore, you have choices, which through
> the operation of competition pushes these vendors towards honesty and
> transparency.

That "competition" obviously did not prevent companies from acting in a
dishonest and intransparent way and collaborating with the NSA.

Cheers,
Andreas

Received on Friday, 12 July 2013 19:57:54 UTC