EFF revises IM safety ratings after pen testers pop 'secure' tools

Australian security duo Matt Jones and Daniel Hodson have found dangerous vulnerabilities in popular instant messaging platforms marked "secure" by the Electronic Frontier Foundation's (EFF) Scorecard. The EFF says its Secure Messaging Scorecard (SMS) should not be viewed as an endorsement of a given IM platform and says it …

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