Less than a month after being brought into
the Twitter fold, Whisper Systems’ Android secure text-messaging client
TextSecure is being made open source.According to Twitter’s Chris
Aniszczyk, the company, a supporter of open source, plans to do the same
with other Whisper Systems software.We love open source According to a
blog post, he said that putting the source code onto GitHub, its
resource for developers, was not a decision Twitter made lightly or on a
whim.“Before we fully release Whisper Systems’ code to the public in
the coming months, we need to make sure it meets legal requirements and
is consumable by the open source community," he said. "The plan is to
open source the code in an iterative fashion, starting today with
TextSecure, which provides support for encrypted texts on Android
devices. We hope individuals will continue to find it useful and build
upon it."“We’ve always been interested in the ability for individuals
and organisations to communicate freely and securely," read a Whsiper
Systems statement. "In the year and a half since Whisper Systems
launched TextSecure, we've received an enormous amount of thanks,
feedback, and encouraging stories from users who have employed
TextSecure towards those ends. We hope that as an open source project,
TextSecure will be able to reach even more people, with an even larger
number of contributors working to make it a great product.”At the time
of its acquisition, Whisper Systems said that some of its products would
be taken offline, including its RedPhone voice encryption service and
its FlashBack encrypted backup offering. Whisper Systems also develops
encryption and security software for mobile devices, including
WhisperCore, WhisperMonitor, Flashback and RedPhone for Android phones.
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