Epic Privacy Browser Forums

beachbuddah

Guest

epic and Uncle Sugar...has the NSA cracked epic already?

With all the headlines the NSA is garnering these days, I saw that they have cracked the tor network, all builds prior to an update in June.  Is there any information as to whether something like this has happened to epic?  Or if there are any plans to foible the NSA's (probable) interest in such an enterprise as epic?

alok

Administrator

Re: epic and Uncle Sugar...has the NSA cracked epic already?

We want to build privacy services which are by design private -- so that they're transparent in terms of your privacy being protected.  We believe that's possible with Epic, but it requires vigilance from the community.   

Epic is proudly developed in India so no NSA worries!!

Also, there are at least two ways at present to make sure of Epic's integrity. 

One is through releasing our source code and making sure it's available to all (Chromium is released...everyone needs to make sure there aren't flaws, etc. -- so far it's shown itself to be very, very secure!).

The second and very important is for users to occasionally use tools like LittleSnitch which jeff and damacdonald used to find some aberrant behaviour.  You can see from time to time calls made from Epic to make sure none are going out to somewhere it shouldn't. 

We have to work as a community and need your help to ensure our privacy & freedom!

lynxwildcat

Guest

Re: epic and Uncle Sugar...has the NSA cracked epic already?

You should include checksums of your download files on the download page, so users can check for themselves that the checksum matches what they downloaded (no man in the middle attack).

this

Guest

Re: epic and Uncle Sugar...has the NSA cracked epic already?

With the end 2013 revelations about NSA TAO checksums are even more important.

alok

Administrator

Re: epic and Uncle Sugar...has the NSA cracked epic already?

Thanks, yes, checksums are very important.  Downloads should ONLY be done via epicbrowser.com and are always via https -- we should still do checksums and other things to prevent MiTM attacks which the NSA has been known to do. 

Thanks -- keep pushing us on this!!

this01

Guest

Re: epic and Uncle Sugar...has the NSA cracked epic already?

Thanks -- keep pushing us on this!!

yes please do!

simple basic feature - yay for checksums!