[messaging] EFF Secure Messaging Scorecard

[Joseph Bonneau]

On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 11:45 PM, Tao Effect <contact at taoeffect.com> wrote:

> I echo nikos questions, especially question #2:
>
> 2. How is Skype communications "encrypted so the provider can't read"
> verified? (or even more important how is this compatible with Prism? ;))
>
>
> Sorry if I missed it, but I searched and don't believe he received an
> answer.
>

This was discussed previously in this thread. There may be a score change
coming on that one.


> In summary, could someone please either provide an explanation for why
> Apple received these two checkbox, or could the EFF please update their
> table so that that Apple's iMessages is truthfully represented in the table?
>

Apple's encryption is end-to-end. Cloud backups can defeat this but we
decided to consider this a separate problem-any tool can be defeated if you
backup the plaintext somewhere in the cloud. If you think this is a bad
feature encourage users to to disable it.
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