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It'd be nice to hear some kind of numbers of whether it got much use at the New Yorker, and what kind of hang ups they ran into. Aaron was a great person and the kind of civic coder we need more of, but that doesn't mean he was an immaculate expert at coding interfaces (both graphical and conceptual), and the accessibility of this application is key. Accessibility, besides cryptographic soundness, is probably the most important feature...its side effect is adaptability, and while such an app is bound to have a small niche, it needs active users and maintainers...Even the Tor Firefox browser fails without proper updates


The security audit linked in the article [1] mentions that the researchers submitted several documents via StrongBox, but never got a response.

[1] http://homes.cs.washington.edu/~aczeskis/research/pubs/UW-CS...


According to the New Yorker, they received the documents but did not respond because they mistook them for input generated by their own internal tests. See [1], linked from [2]

[1] http://homes.cs.washington.edu/~aczeskis/research/pubs/DeadD... [2] https://pressfreedomfoundation.org/blog/2013/10/how-we-plan-...




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