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by DanBC 3767 days ago
> Is it safe?

> You bet. We use modern SSL encryption protocol to ensure that your data is securely sent to our servers for encryption.

> Plus, your message and password will never be stored into the database.

Here's a list of journalists killed since 1992 to 2010. http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2010/jan/11/journal...

Here's a list of journalists killed in Russia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_journalists_killed_in_...

We need to be careful with these numbers, because sometimes a murdered journalist was not targeted because of their journalism. But still: you describe your service as safe. Is it something other people should trust their lives to? Is it something that could withstand a well funded government agency attack?