He is also said to be working on secure tools to help journalists protect their sources, and urges anyone with a need to protect client confidentiality to start using encryption in their communications.
Here, Morozov is as wrong as he could possibly be: if you want to develop secure tools to allow dissidents to communicate beneath the noses of oppressive regimes, you must widely publish the workings of these tools and revise them frequently as your peers identify new vulnerabilities in them.
The most secure tools out there are also the most difficult tools to use.
What we need next is highly encrypted, secure tools that are dead-simple to us.
"This partnership enables developers and IT departments to seamlessly take advantage of the most open, secure tools for building modern applications in a hybrid environment".
The two met at the Oslo Freedom Forum, a gathering devoted to increasing communication among human rights advocates and their supporters, and began discussing how to create secure tools for activists to use in crisis situations.
"Red Hat is delivering the open, flexible and more secure tools to tackle both cloud-native and traditional application development, all on a consistent, standards-based platform," wrote Paul Cormier, Red Hat's president for products and technologies, in a blog post today.
The company plans to release an app for iOS in the next few months, but in the meantime, non-Android users can get access to the same set of secure tools through its new mobile-optimized website through their devices' browsers.
Theoretically, these steps can be managed through email, but structured, secure tools for specimen requests, tracking and MTA management can make this process easier.
And they do their best within their goals to have security, but they're not trying to be the most secure tool.
