On Tue, Mar 20, 2012, at 06:34 PM, Mr Dash Four wrote: > > > Here's the app on the google market: > > > > [...etc...] > > > For someone who "isn't affiliated" with this piece of closed-source > software (thus, questionable credentials as far as people's privacy is > concerned) you seem pretty determined to shove it down everyone's > throat quite intensely!
Careful, troll. Mike is concerned with practical security against likely adversaries, so his reasons for using the software might be nuanced, depending on who he believes his adversary is. For example, his blog post https://grepular.com/Protecting_a_Laptop_from_Simple_and_Sophisticated_Attacks is pretty good about pointing out the need for differences in security with respect to multiple adversaries. It was fairly widely circulated. I'm actually curious if the implementation in LBE is better tolerant to app failure than what Cyanogenmod has. The Cyanogenmod implementation causes apps to get exceptions thrown at them when the code that needs the permission tries to execute. Some apps catch these exceptions and move on. Some simply die. It is possible that what Mike means by "not nearly is good" is that LBE's "state of the art hooking techniques" actually have a more elegant solution to the exception problem (such as causing all APIs that require the permission to silently fail without throwing exceptions). It's also possible he has other entirely reasonable reasons for preferring LBE. Either way, I'd like to hear them. -- http://www.fastmail.fm - A fast, anti-spam email service. _______________________________________________ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
