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

[Moses Karanja]

Ali, as you noted, The Guardian decided to go with the catchphrase.
Asking the right questions would have been boring but who has time for
boring studies when you can attack Facebook/WhatsApp and get the
spotlight?  :)

Security is hard and no one person/organization can get it 100%. It is
more practical to live with systems that can fail well by being
transparent on vulnerabilities and being proactive with patching them.


M


On 14/01/2017 13:21, Ali Hussein wrote:
> Moses
>
> Thanks for sharing. I personally considered the Guardian story and
> then read the Open Whispers System blog and came to the conclusion
> that it just may be possible that the Guardian Newspaper in this case
> was really dabbling in sensationalism.
>
> I'm keen to hear comments from listers who have a deeper understanding
> of cryptography. 
>
> Meanwhile in all things tech and social the best defense against
> snooping and hacking is simply this:-
>
> Exercise caution. Don't write or post anything that may embarrass you
> if someone hacked into any of your devices. 
>
> This may be an opportunity for those who have gotten into the habit of
> engaging in an online relationship to actually go out and meet..You
> know...like we used to do in the 1980s and before..
>
> You may just find it super fulfilling...in more ways than one.. :-) 
>
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>
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>
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On 14 Jan 2017, at 8:24 AM, Moses Karanja via kictanet
> <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke <mailto:kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>>
> wrote:
>
>> Open Whispers response to The Guardian article, maintaining it is not
>> a backdoor:
>>
>>     The only question it might be reasonable to ask is whether these
>>     safety number change notifications should be "blocking" or
>>     "non-blocking." In other words, when a contact's key changes,
>>     should WhatsApp require the user to manually verify the new key
>>     before continuing, or should WhatsApp display an advisory
>>     notification and continue without blocking the user.
>>
>> https://whispersystems.org/blog/there-is-no-whatsapp-backdoor/
>>
>>
>> Moses
>>
>>
>>
>> On 13/01/2017 21:43, kictanet-request at lists.kictanet.or.ke wrote:
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