By John Gruber
Honk is the all-new way to chat with your friends in real time, with messages shown live as you type.
This comes as no surprise, but it’s fascinating nonetheless. They’ve achieved much of this via cheating — not by cracking the encryption through brute force but by obtaining the keys, and by helping to engineer and establish encryption standards with weaknesses known by (or designed by) the NSA itself.
★ Friday, 6 September 2013