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Prepare to be harassed by governments (including US) for releasing this. As soon as some activist uses this they will come after you. As soon as a criminal uses it, they will have a smear campaign ready to denounce this effort as 'aiding terrorist' or 'child abusers'.

See what they did and do with Jacob Appelbaum



It appears that moxie has already been heavily harassed by the US gov for unknown reasons, prior to this software release. So, I'm not really sure he will be that concerned with your warning.

While Tor and RedPhone might be considered to be in the same class of consumer security software, I don't think it's fair to draw comparisons to Appelbaum.


Twitter owns Whisper Systems. So it's really Twitter releasing it as Free software. Same with the Text Secure application.


> See what they did and do with Jacob Appelbaum

...and he doesn't even write software!




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