On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 3:22 AM, Shava Nerad <shav...@gmail.com> wrote: > So perhaps the journalist is giving you as the reader a little credit for > reading between the lines, intelligently (that being the root of the word: > inter for between, and legens for reading), to figure out what exactly you > can draw as credible or not, but the point may be -- omg, this is what we're > grabbing for our cream of the crop?"
The problem is that when you try to read between the lines, the whole story looks like it was sucked out of author's index finger, after reading the Wikipedia article on NSA and viewing a few YouTube videos about hacker communities. He would learn about backdoors in encryption equipment by ordering their manuals? Where from, exactly, would he order such classified material? How would he search for backdoors if all radios since 70's are modularized, and manuals for sensitive equipment certainly wouldn't contain schematics for the modules inside? Does the writer have any idea how rare it is for someone to be really good at both hardware and software hacking? Or how unlikely it is for a high-school dropout to be able to break even the simplest frequency hopping encryption? Etc. -- Maxim Kammerer Liberté Linux: http://dee.su/liberte -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
