On Thu, 5 Sep 2013 15:23:01 -0500 (CDT) Eric <eri...@mathlab.gruver.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Sep 2013, Dennis Davis wrote: > > > On Thu, 5 Sep 2013, Chris Cappuccio wrote: > > > > > From: Chris Cappuccio <ch...@nmedia.net> > > > To: Kasper Adel <karim.a...@gmail.com> > > > Cc: misc <misc@openbsd.org> > > > Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2013 19:40:16 > > > Subject: Re: Data Mining/Crawling a Mailing List > > > > > > The NSA has some good tools. I'd give them a call. Their contact info: > > > > No, no, no. The NSA, and their British counterparts GCHQ, are > > already aware of your request. They will shortly be in contact with > > both of you. > > What do you bet that the NSA already has something liek this for their own > SELINUX mailing list? > > Eric > from http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/05/nsa-gchq-encryption-codes-security "The documents show that the agency has already achieved another of the goals laid out in the budget request: to influence the international standards upon which encryption systems rely." This is possibly the most pernicious effort: the trojaning of specifications with bad logic. This leads to implementations porous to anyone with criminal intentions. Dhu -- Ne obliviscaris, vix ea nostra voco.
