[guardian-dev] Fwd: [messaging] EFF Secure Messaging Scorecard

[Carol Waters]

This is great, Joe!

Will be collecting feedback from end-users/workshop participants to send
on. (Selfishly: Extra nice to be able to send this to our J-School
students days after we trained them on various IM clients : )

Best,
Carol

On 11/4/14 11:47 AM, Nathan of Guardian wrote:
> 
> 
> ----- Original message -----
> From: Joseph Bonneau <jbonneau at gmail.com>
> To: messaging <messaging at moderncrypto.org>
> Subject: [messaging] EFF Secure Messaging Scorecard
> Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2014 11:43:56 -0500
> 
> First version launched today:
> https://www.eff.org/secure-messaging-scorecard
> 
> This was a collaboration between tech advisers (primarily Peter
> Eckersley
> and myself) and a good team of people with experience in journalism and
> activism and there were necessarily some compromises made. The primary
> goals here were:
> 
> (a) simplicity for users (and journalists) to draw some conclusions
> about
> what's out there right now and we had to make a lot of compromises to
> keep
> things simple for end-users to understand.
> 
> (b) reasonable carrots for some of the traditional messaging apps to add
> security features, get audits, and publish source code.
> 
> Hopefully we will be launching a more detailed version next year with
> many
> more evaluation criteria but would be curious to hear feedback on this
> version from other folks working in this space.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Joe
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