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Submission + - RMS and Clipperz promoting freedom in the cloud (clipperz.com)

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mbarulli
mbarulli writes: "Clipperz and Richard Stallman recently launched a joint call for action to bring freedom and privacy to web applications. "The benefits of web apps are many, but quite often users lose their freedom to study, modify and discuss the source code that powers those web apps. Furthermore, we are forced to trust third parties with our data (bookmarks, text documents, chat transcripts, financial info, ... and now health records!) that no longer resides on our hard disks, but are stored somewhere in the cloud." Clipperz and RMS urge web developers to adopt the new AGPL license and build their applications using a "zero-knowledge architecture", a framework for web services that has been derived from Clipperz online password manager. A smooth path toward web apps based on free software that know nothing about you and your data."

Comment More steganography ahead (Score 1) 418

by mbarulli (#20025443) Attached to: Merely Cloaking Data May Be Incriminating?
In the US the fifth amendment, which is part of the Bill of Rights, asserts:

No person [...] shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself.
The Italian law has a very similar provision, the "nemo tenetur se detegere" principle. It states that a person under investigation can refuse to make declarations.
But what if the encrypted files are disguised as innocent family pictures?
No police or judge can request a key if they don't know or cannot reasonably prove that a key exists. It's easy to imagine a mass adoption of steganographic tools where secret documents and communications are hidden inside irreproachable pictures. Similarly, tools like TrueCrypt can conceal encrypted material in a way that prevent its detection.
More on this issue in this post: More steganography ahead on the Clipperz online password manager blog.

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