Ok, Mr. Anonymous. What platform would be better and why?
The first thing I see on the surface that worries me is their "Hacker Safe" box and perhaps their 100% privacy guarantee. Nothing is Hacker safe, nothing is 100% safe, You can come close, but not completely. That's false advertising and giving people a false sense of security. Security is on the inside, not in an image on the front page.
On their FAQ, they only say that they monitor for security alerts and have Scanalert monitor their servers. Even if they are doing encryption, they better hope that they've put more thought into it than this. Just using encryption is not enough, you have to consider quite a few things, like what type of data it is, where in the data stream is it encrypted/decrypted, etc. Consider a known plaintext attack. If they store data in a structure and the hacker knows that the data inside the encrypted block is a US phone number, then they might know that the 4th and 8th character are a hyphen. I wonder if they considered things like this?
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Re: Open source applications Keep You Safe
Posted by: deltaray on April 22, 2008 12:47 PMThe first thing I see on the surface that worries me is their "Hacker Safe" box and perhaps their 100% privacy guarantee. Nothing is Hacker safe, nothing is 100% safe, You can come close, but not completely. That's false advertising and giving people a false sense of security. Security is on the inside, not in an image on the front page.
On their FAQ, they only say that they monitor for security alerts and have Scanalert monitor their servers. Even if they are doing encryption, they better hope that they've put more thought into it than this. Just using encryption is not enough, you have to consider quite a few things, like what type of data it is, where in the data stream is it encrypted/decrypted, etc. Consider a known plaintext attack. If they store data in a structure and the hacker knows that the data inside the encrypted block is a US phone number, then they might know that the 4th and 8th character are a hyphen. I wonder if they considered things like this?
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