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Is Open Source an Open Invitation to Hack Webmail Encryption?

2014-08-21 20:21:08| TechNewsWorld

In a move influenced by Edward Snowden's revelations about the NSA's email snooping, Yahoo and Google last week announced that they were cooperating on end-to-end encrypting their webmail products. While the open source approach has proven its value over and over again, the idea of opening up the code for security features to anyone with eyeballs still creates anxiety in some circles.

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