Re: Facebook

[allison nixon <elsakoo () gmail com>]

Off The Record is a plugin for Pidgin that does this sort of thing for
chats.  If you use this for gtalk, and look in your conversations folder
stored in Gmail in your browser, its all encrypted gibberish.



On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 11:12 AM, Dobbins, Roland <rdobbins () arbor net>wrote:

> On May 20, 2011, at 9:38 PM, Dave Aitel wrote:
>
> > You could even encrypt your picture uploads, chats, etc.
>
>
> Why would Facebook permit this, once they figured it out, since their
> business model is predicated upon building a social graph and then mining
> it?
>
> And of course, all the layer-7 worm/exploit traffic would be encrypted,
> too, which blinds detection/classification within the communications bus (in
> this case, Facebook).  Overencryption is a serious security issue, and is
> only growing worse, IMHO.
>
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