Re: <nettime> end-to-end encryption for the masses

["abram stern (aphid)" <aphid@ucsc.edu>]

Also relevant, today's announcement by Mozilla and others of a free
encryption certs via a new public benefit corp/tCA and open source tools to
deploy this encryption on a site with 2 commands:
https://letsencrypt.org/2014/11/18/announcing-lets-encrypt.html

On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 8:30 AM, Felix Stalder <felix@openflows.com> wrote:

> http://www.wired.com/2014/11/whatsapp-encrypted-messaging/
>
> Growing up in Soviet Ukraine in the 1980s, Whatsapp founder Jan Koum
> learned to distrust the government and detest its surveillance. After he
> emigrated to the U.S. and created his ultra-popular messaging system
> decades later, he vowed that Whatsapp would never make eavesdropping
> easy for anyone. Now, Whatsapp is following through on that
> anti-snooping promise at an unprecedented scale.
 <...>


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