Snake: crowdfunding an encrypted, easy-to-use social network

If I were the NSA, I would offer a product just like this. Need a secure way to stay in contact with all your suspicious friends? Just install this app on ALL your machines!

Seriously, though:

  1. You install an app or use a browser-plugin.
  2. You communicate through a remote server (or server). There’s no peer-to-peer.
  3. Your data is stored on one of those remote servers.

Those are all opportunities for exploitation. I wish these guys the best, but I have reservations about the chances this will actually work. I guess the good news for them is that if it doesn’t work, it will take another Snowden to find that out.