On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 5:16 AM, Eugen Leitl <eu...@leitl.org> wrote:
> This past January, Laura Poitras received a curious e-mail from an > anonymous > stranger requesting her public encryption key. For almost two years, > Poitras > had been working on a documentary about surveillance, and she occasionally > received queries from strangers. She replied to this one and sent her > public > key — allowing him or her to send an encrypted e-mail that only Poitras > could > open, with her private key Then the NSA MitMed her unauthenticated plaintext email, replacing her public key with theirs, and were able to intercept all of the Snowden emails. Oops! -- Tony Arcieri
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