Dropbox and Google create Simply Secure, an organization trying to make open source security tools easy to use
Sweet… Google and Dropbox teaming up to make secure software easier to use. Sounds good to me!
Sweet… Google and Dropbox teaming up to make secure software easier to use. Sounds good to me!
Dropbox and Google create Simply Secure, an organization trying to make security tools easy to use
Dropbox, Google, and the Open Technology Fund today announced a new organization focused on making open source security tools easier to use. Called Simply Secure, the initiative brings …
Only a matter of time before someone had to deal with this, right?
I think people have been trying to deal with it for a long time, the big problem is making it easy, seamless, AND getting it so it works with everything. With luck they'll nil the tech and UI… and then get everyone else on board.
Problem is both are US firms and you gota suspect anything which the NSA can apply pressure too these days 🙁
Well, it's all open source so at least the code can be reviewed.
True, which makes something 99% more trustworthy. I guess its one of those things where lazyness wins out over security. The sourcecode would be well checked, so if you download and compile yourself youd be totaly secure.
However, the state things are now I wouldn't remotely put it past the NSA to silently redirect downloads of precompiled versions to their own versions. I mean, if there prepared to physically swap routers being transported its not much of a leap :-/
I guess checksums could be used to some extent, but even there its possible to alter stuff without changing the checksum if your sufficiently skilled.
The larger problem is the NSA putting pressure on and purposefully steering encryption standards to have weaknesses…. even in open protocols. eek!
You can do ssh git clones with GitHub (or Bitbucket) if they keep the code there. That should prevent some trickery with the downloads.