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comment by syzo
syzo  ·  3977 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: BitTorrent unveils NSA-proof online calling and messaging software.

    They will probably be able to crack this the same way that bittottent was cracked. By inserting nodes into the network that recorded the data going through. Get enough nodes under your control, then you can potentially piece together whole conversations. It is a difficult and costly process.

I assume you mean Tor.

And, a prerequisite of being "NSA-Proof" is being open source. If it's closed, you can assume that it's just a honeypot, not secure, etc.

Hell, even if it IS open source, we all saw what happened with OpenSSL. At least heartbleed eventually got identified and patched.