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Waze: How I Tracked Your Mother

Tracking Waze drivers with UI elements.

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Validating Bitmessage public keys

Let's check if public keys are valid elliptic curve points according to a secp256k1 parameters.

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Secure communication: Pond

The Pond is asynchronous, encrypted, forward-secure messaging application written by in Go programming language. The Pond’s graphic interface looks like an email client from the early 90s, but under the surface it’s doing a good job protecting end-to-end communication using common hipster state of the art encryption protocol. To be honest, I had some hard time make its source code running so I have created a guide for you. Let’s analyze it a little bit more.

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Secure communication: Bitmessage

Inspired by EFF’s, I have decided to analyze some not so well-known secure messaging applications. I am going to analyze only open-source solutions and the first application is Bitmessage. Bitmessage is a decentralized, encrypted, peer-to-peer, trustless communication protocol written in Python with Qt GUI.

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