Re: [tor-talk] Pogoplug: is safe enough against NSA?

[Philipp Winter <phw@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 09:55:03PM +0200, Moritz Bartl wrote:
> On 04/10/2014 03:01 PM, Marcos Eugenio Kehl wrote:
> > Hello experts!
> > What do you think about Pogoplug?
> > https://pogoplug.com/safeplug
> > 
> > Why do I use it instead of Tor Browser in my computer?
> 
> Nothing is "safe enough against NSA". The safeplug developers never
> reached out to the Tor project, which obviously lowers the interest in
> working with them. Some people have looked at it briefly, discarding it
> because of several reasons which I don't exactly remember right now.
> Something about an tracking identifier being sent to their servers, etc.

I had a look at the system and reported a number of problems to the developers.
That was about a month ago.  Unfortunately, I cannot give any details at this
point but I will post a full analysis once the problems are fixed.  In the
meanwhile, I would not use the Safeplug.

Cheers,
Philipp
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