The biggest threat that remains hard to resolve is the phone number threat. Each day it becomes even more important to protect because every platform now uses this as an identity card. Let me remind y...
Care to elaborate on hardware he sells and rudimentary e2e?
I don’t watch him, but my paranoid non tech savvy friend does, and I wanna know what’s up 😂
Yeah, I’m sorry for sitting on this comment for so long. In the video linked from this post, Rob actually sells his expertise as a software developer as the reason to trust his product. Expect we know what his work as a software developer looks like because he’s put it online.
Take braxme, his “encrypted” social network. The website just calls it encrypted, but his apps call it E2EE, end to end encryption.
But his apps are open source, so we can inspect them. If you look at his server-side code, that’s where you’ll actually see the encryption happening. You hand the website the unencrypted messages and your keys, and it handles everything on its side, meaning you need to fully trust the server. Not only is this not E2EE, but it sounds like poor encryption at rest.
While trying to research this further, I ran into people on Twitter talking about how Braxman overhypes his products to the point of maybe total dishonesty.
Thanks for the reply.
I didn’t have time to investigate him myself, but I just always had sus vibes from him.
Friend in question is really bad with tech but prone to conspiratory thinking, and always ends up doing the wrong things to improve his privacy that usually make his live harder and don’t improve his privacy / security in any way like disabling critical android system apps over just installing custom rom, making his phone not work right.
Very frustrating cause I’m a busy guy and don’t have time to debunk all the nonsense he picks up online.
Braxman seems to be someone who he mainly “learns” this stuff from.
This might help explain it to him.
Care to elaborate on hardware he sells and rudimentary e2e? I don’t watch him, but my paranoid non tech savvy friend does, and I wanna know what’s up 😂
Yeah, I’m sorry for sitting on this comment for so long. In the video linked from this post, Rob actually sells his expertise as a software developer as the reason to trust his product. Expect we know what his work as a software developer looks like because he’s put it online.
Take braxme, his “encrypted” social network. The website just calls it encrypted, but his apps call it E2EE, end to end encryption.
But his apps are open source, so we can inspect them. If you look at his server-side code, that’s where you’ll actually see the encryption happening. You hand the website the unencrypted messages and your keys, and it handles everything on its side, meaning you need to fully trust the server. Not only is this not E2EE, but it sounds like poor encryption at rest.
While trying to research this further, I ran into people on Twitter talking about how Braxman overhypes his products to the point of maybe total dishonesty.
https://twitter.com/avoidthehack/status/1630304829741383683
http://web.archive.org/web/20220428021529/https://twitter.com/TommyTran732/status/1519500310070403075 (This post is still up, but broken for people who aren’t logged in to Twitter)
Thanks for the reply. I didn’t have time to investigate him myself, but I just always had sus vibes from him.
Friend in question is really bad with tech but prone to conspiratory thinking, and always ends up doing the wrong things to improve his privacy that usually make his live harder and don’t improve his privacy / security in any way like disabling critical android system apps over just installing custom rom, making his phone not work right.
Very frustrating cause I’m a busy guy and don’t have time to debunk all the nonsense he picks up online.
Braxman seems to be someone who he mainly “learns” this stuff from. This might help explain it to him.