Wow. It had to be someone. Who would you have had it been?
On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 3:43 PM, Tony Arcieri <basc...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > > -- > Liberationtech is a public list whose archives are searchable on Google. > Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, > change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at > compa...@stanford.edu. -- Liberationtech is a public list whose archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu.
