this is one of those articles where you think you've hit rock bottom and it just keeps and keeps on getting worse
crnkovic.dev
Testing a new encrypted messaging app's extraordinary claims
How I breached a nonexistent database and found every private key in a 'state-of-the-art' encrypted messenger.
https://crnkovic.dev/testing-converso/ (archived)
"2023-05-11: The founder of Converso, Tanner Haas, tells me that he and his 'legal team' have a problem with my article, and recommends I remove it. He begins sending me a series of emails, accusing me of defamation and slander, and alleging that I am "either an employee [of Signal] or Moxie himself." Meanwhile, Converso begins removing content from its website and marketing materials, including most of the false or misleading statements quoted in this article."
normal good behavior always.
i always sorta keep "never trust a tech company with an ad spend budget" as a personal rule and as soon as it opened with the writer learning they existed through an ad spot on a podcast, I Had A Feeling.
2023-05-14: Converso publishes a new blog post to its website in what appears to be a strategy to outrank, in search engine results, this web page and possibly others that point out Converso's security flaws and misrepresentations. The new post includes the phrase 'testing Converso's claims' in its meta description tag.
the seo engineer is at it lmao
