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What is a Good Secure Messaging Tool? The EFF Secure Messaging Scorecard and the Shaping of Digital (Usable) Security
Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture Pub Date : 2017-10-31 , DOI: 10.16997/wpcc.265
Francesca Musiani , Ksenia Ermoshina

In today’s diverse and crowded landscape of messaging systems, what are the most secure and usable tools? The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a digital rights group based in San Francisco, CA, has been considering this question for a long time. Their most prominent initiative in this regard has been the 2014 release of the Secure Messaging Scorecard (SMS), a 7-criteria evaluation of ‘usable security’ in messaging systems. While the 2014 version of the SMS (now 1.0) displays a number of apparently straightforward criteria, a first look into the backstage shows that the selection and formulation of these criteria has been anything but linear, something that has been made particularly evident by the EFF’s recent move to renew and update the SMS. Indeed, in a digital world where the words security and privacy are constantly mobilized with several different meanings, it seems relevant to analyse the SMS’s first release, and the subsequent discussions and renegotiations of it, as processes that co-produce particular definitions of security, of defence against surveillance, and of privacy protection. This article argues that, by means of the SMS negotiations around the categories that are meaningful to qualify and define encryption, the EFF is in fact contributing to the shaping of what makes a ‘good’ secure messaging application, and what constitutes a ‘good’ categorization system to assess (usable) security, able to take into account all the ‘relevant’ aspects – not only technical but social and economic.

中文翻译:

什么是好的安全消息传递工具?EFF安全消息记分卡和数字(可用)安全性的形成

在当今多样化且拥挤的消息传递系统中,最安全和可用的工具是什么?总部位于加利福尼亚州旧金山的数字版权组织电子前沿基金会(EFF)长期以来一直在考虑这个问题。在这方面,他们最杰出的举措是2014年发布的安全消息记分卡(SMS),它是对消息系统中“可用安全性”进行7条标准评估。虽然2014年版的SMS(现在是1.0)显示了许多看似简单的标准,但对后台的初看表明,这些标准的选择和制定绝非线性,EFF的做法尤其明显最近更新和更新SMS的举动。确实,在数字世界中,安全和隐私一词不断以几种不同的含义动员起来,似乎有必要分析SMS的第一个版本以及随后的讨论和重新谈判,因为它们共同产生了安全性,防御性的特定定义不受监视和隐私保护。本文认为,通过围绕有意义的类别和定义加密意义的类别进行SMS协商,EFF实际上有助于形成“良好”安全消息应用程序的构成要素,以及构成“良好”安全应用程序的构成要素评估(可用)安全性的分类系统,能够考虑所有“相关”方面–不仅是技术方面,而且还包括社会和经济方面。以及随后的讨论和重新协商,以共同产生安全性,防御监视和隐私保护的特定定义的过程。本文认为,通过围绕有意义的类别和定义加密意义的类别进行SMS协商,EFF实际上有助于形成“良好”安全消息应用程序的构成要素,以及构成“良好”安全应用程序的构成要素评估(可用)安全性的分类系统,能够考虑所有“相关”方面–不仅是技术方面,而且还包括社会和经济方面。以及随后的讨论和重新协商,以共同产生安全性,防御监视和隐私保护的特定定义的过程。本文认为,通过围绕有意义的类别和定义加密意义的类别进行SMS协商,EFF实际上有助于形成“良好”安全消息应用程序的构成要素,以及构成“良好”安全应用程序的构成要素评估(可用)安全性的分类系统,能够考虑所有“相关”方面–不仅是技术方面,而且还包括社会和经济方面。
更新日期:2017-10-31
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