On 14/12/2013, at 9:19 AM, Karl Auer wrote: > On Sat, 2013-12-14 at 09:16 +1100, Kim Holburn wrote: >> http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/529392/20131211/gchq-forced-privatesky-secure-email-service-offline.htm >>> "We are business people but we believe in privacy, internet freedom and >>> responsible government." > > The reason they had to give up, and the reason they were a viable target > in the first place, was that they centralised control in a single > entity. If there were a distributed mechanism in place (think Tor), > these problems would go away. > > I don't know what that mechanism is - but it's the answer :-)
The problem with distributed mechanisms is that you don't know who owns them. It's simple enough to NSA to own enough of them to have a high probability of collecting the metadata it desires. -glen _______________________________________________ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
