WHITE HOUSE STAFF, REPORTERS USING SHITTY ENCRYPTION APP RUN

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>The White House has provided a steady stream of leaks. In response, Trump has launched an investigation, and expressed his displeasure in a tweet: “Why are there so many illegal leaks coming out of Washington?”

>Confide launched in 2013 as a secure app for executives looking to trade gossip and talk shop without creating a digital trail. The service uses a proprietary encryption protocol, what the company describes as “military-grade end-to-end encryption.” Its marquee feature, self-destructing messages, appears on similar services like Snapchat, but Confide’s appeal lies in its promise of more robust protections.

>It’s worth noting, though, that unlike other secure messaging apps, like standard-bearer Signal, Confide’s encryption is closed source and proprietary, meaning no one outside the company knows what’s going on under the hood of the app. Company president Jon Brod says that Confide bases its encryption protocol on the widely used PGP standard, and that the app’s network connection security relies on “recommended best practices” like Transport Socket Layer (TLS). Brod did not respond to questions, though, about whether Confide has ever opened its code base to be independently audited by a third party.

>“One key is always, do you make code publicly available that’s been audited where features have been inspected by the security community so that it can arrive at some consensus,” says Electronic Frontier Foundation legal fellow Aaron Mackey. “My understanding with Confide, at least right now, is that it’s not clear whether that’s occurred.”

https://www.wired.com/2017/02/white-house-encryption-confide-app/

Here's what Wired won't tell you:

>Howard Lerman
Co-Founder & Chairman
>Jon Brod
Co-Founder & President
>Jeff Grossman
Co-Founder & CPO
>Rich Hong
Co-Founder & CTO

https://getconfide.com/team

3 of the 4 founders are (((chosen)))

Coincidence?

Signal is also run by a (((chosenite)))