Confide, a favorite app of Trump’s White House, is ‘a triumph of marketing over substance’

BoerenkoolMetWorst · Feb 19, 2017

Republicans in D.C., including members of the Trump administration, are now using Confide, an encrypted messaging app that quickly deletes old chats. Riding waves of media attention following major hacks from Sony to the Clinton campaign, the app boasts “military grade encryption” that attracts powerful businesspeople and political operatives as customers.

What does that actually mean?

“It’s a triumph of marketing over substance,” Alan Woodward, a security researcher and professor at the University of Surrey, told CyberScoop.

Aside from impressive-sounding marketing slogans, Confide has shared precious little specific technical information about the encryption it employs. There is no code to check, no white paper to analyze. But a preliminary review this week raised questions about possibly critically broken encryption under the hood of the app.
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https://www.cyberscoop.com/confide-favorite-app-trumps-white-house-triumph-marketing-substance/

Minimalist · Mar 8, 2017

Encrypted messaging app Confide suffers from many security issues
Confide, the encrypted instant messaging application with a self-destructing messaging system that has become popular with White House staffers, is not so secure after all.
IOActive released today the results of the company’s recent research into the app, and noted that they found several issues which could be exploited by an attacker to impersonate another user by hijacking their account session or by guessing their password, learn the contact details of all or specific Confide users, become an intermediary in a conversation and decrypt messages, and alter the contents of a message or attachment in transit without first decrypting it.
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https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2017/03/08/confide-security-issues/

mirimir · Mar 8, 2017

I wonder how long it will take for Trump's private stuff to get leaked. He has enemies in the intelligence services, it seems. I doubt that they'd have reservations about leaking evidence of corruption, no matter how patriotic they are. Indeed, maybe patriotism would motivate them.

Minimalist · Apr 21, 2017

Confide App Gets Sued Over Privacy Concerns

Confide, the secure messaging app that White House staffers use to gossip on the President, is being sued over falsely advertising its privacy features.
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http://news.softpedia.com/news/confide-app-gets-sued-over-privacy-concerns-515038.shtml

mirimir · Apr 21, 2017

If this didn't involve a major world power with thousands of nukes, it'd be hilarious. As it is, it's a bit freaky. I mean, we have White House staff gossiping in public about each other and the President. Back in the day, they had to tell it to a newspaper reporter, or whatever.

Tomwa · May 25, 2017

Eh call me when he's running it off his own private web server in his house to avoid FOIA requests.

Just proves what we all already knew - the government is inept.

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