[Cryptography] Release of Smoke - Android Crypto Chat App - on Tuesday (#4thofJuly)

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On Sun, Jul 02, 2017 at 06:30:24PM +0200, Peter Underwood wrote:
> https://smokeappope.sourceforge.io/

Beware, this appears to be produced by the same group that is behind
the goldbug, echo, spot-on, dooble, etc line of highly questionable
applications.

This announcement was bcc'd to me while obviously already here,
that's stupid so I'll bash them for that game too. Note also their
renewed attempt at EFF alignment, this time by copying the
visual recognition of the EFF scorecard model. Hi EFF :)

Reviewing their code is highly encouraged, even people creating
a bounty for doing that... after all, outing possibly big scam
organizations like this is just as credworthy as earning the next
CVE for rooting the OpenBSD kernel, etc.

Anonymous development is a legitimate thing,
however this group is just bizarre.

Given their ethical and other issues called out earlier on these
lists (search: goldbug)... be *extremely* careful before elevating
any of their suite to anything more than nonproduction snakeoil.