You could also say Cryptocat protected Snowden; he used it to communicate with reporters. So, that's how well that argument holds up.

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bgwalter 3 hours ago | parent [-]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptocat#Reception_and_usage

"In June 2013, Cryptocat was used by journalist Glenn Greenwald while in Hong Kong to meet NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden for the first time, after other encryption software failed to work."

So it was used when Snowden was already on the run, other software failed and the communication did not have to be confidential for the long term.

It would also be an indictment of messaging services as opposed to gpg. gpg has the advantage that there is no money in it, so there are unlikely to be industry or deep state shills.

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tptacek 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Huh? There's no money in anything we're talking about here.

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bgwalter 2 hours ago | parent [-]

You have to understand the concept that people go on tangents on an internet message board. Your persistent sniping on parts of messages is annoying.

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tptacek an hour ago | parent [-]

I don't care that it's a tangent, I care that it's incoherent and wrong.

	▲	bgwalter 12 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		The tangent explicitly talks about generic messaging services. Whatsapp and Signal have more money than gpg. Thinking about it more, it is not even a tangent, because TFA says: "Use Signal. Or Wire, or WhatsApp, or some other Signal-protocol-based secure messenger."