Comment by hirako2000
4 days ago
It's a team of 3. It's not like they have a security team, dedicated testers. They were for very long releasing beta software. That in fact already worked.
4 days ago
It's a team of 3. It's not like they have a security team, dedicated testers. They were for very long releasing beta software. That in fact already worked.
If a core feature of your software requires security guarantees you can't just say they don't have a "security team" .
Could be a solo person or a team of 5,000. This is amateur hour, and they are not serious about their purported secure and private platform.
Oh, so when they advertise “Your Data, Forever and Secure”[1] in big bold letters on their homepage with total disregard for the truth of that statement they are just committing fraud. Got it.
[1] https://radicle.dev/
The rest of that quote is:
> All social artifacts are stored in Git, and signed using public-key cryptography. Radicle verifies the authenticity and authorship of all data for you.
They're clearly not talking about privacy there.
Is it embarrassing that their private feature was broken? Sure. But it's for the most part a publishing platform. Protecting users against a network adversary who wan't to know what they're publishing isn't exactly core functionality.
Oh indeed, if we just redefine words in the fine print then we can commit fraud with impunity.
Please enlighten me how that blurb supports the common reading of the claim: Your data, … secure. Note that and is a additive conjunction, so the components can be safely examined separately.
A regular person would assume that means your data is secure against tampering and disclosure. If you then say: “lol, jk we do not do anything related to securing your data” in the fine print then in a reasonable society you should be required to remove that more prominent false large print.
You can always go back and reword your large print to be more accurate without making deceptive claims to your benefit. Weird how the deception is always beneficial.
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