<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">A number of things about this one made me kind of uneasy. The clichéd tone of the article “high-school dropout trumps NSA!” The complete absence of input from anyone who wasn’t a project insider, and the dissing of competitors who are actually shipping working software. I mentioned on Twitter that a couple of things about the story made my BS filter twitch, and I got slimed by multiple project partisans (nobody I’ve ever heard of) for being a hater, etc. I looked at the github repo and if any development is actually happening, it’s not there; no commits to the actual code for a couple months. Now, none of those things in & of itself is reason to dismiss Ricochet, but I have to say my BS filter is doing more than twitching.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 12:32 PM, =JeffH <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Jeff.Hodges@kingsmountain.com" target="_blank">Jeff.Hodges@kingsmountain.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">this is just fyi/fwiw, I haven't investigated this other than skimming the article..<br>
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Middle-School Dropout Codes Clever Chat Program That Foils NSA Spying [ricochet]<br>
<a href="http://www.wired.com/2014/09/new-encrypted-chat-program-thwarts-nsa-eliminating-metadata" target="_blank">http://www.wired.com/2014/09/<u></u>new-encrypted-chat-program-<u></u>thwarts-nsa-eliminating-<u></u>metadata</a><br>
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<a href="https://github.com/ricochet-im/ricochet" target="_blank">https://github.com/ricochet-<u></u>im/ricochet</a><br>
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