[kictanet] CA Speaks to Internet Shutdowns and "Monitoring" of Online Comms

[Moses Karanja]

Security is not an absolute. No tool will give you that. However, what
the security community considers a threshold for any product is
transparency and disclosure of vulnerabilities. This allows an iterated
security path.

What worries me about today's Guardian article on WhatsApp is not that
there is a crypto blindspot but that the security researcher claims to
have informed WhatsApp security team back in April 2016 (responsible
disclosure) but the parent company, Facebook, did not consider patching
it a priority:

    "Boelter reported the backdoor vulnerability to Facebook in April
    2016, but was told that Facebook was aware of the issue, that it was
    “expected behaviour” and wasn’t being actively worked on. The
    Guardian has verified the backdoor still exists."

That is my real concern.


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