Re: How true can this be?
John W. Moore III wrote: More likely a fatal traffic accident or victim of a street mugging with similar outcome. People communicate in and from Jails. I hate to rain on people's parades, but that sort of James Bond stuff tends to draw a lot more attention. Assassination is an extremely ineffective form of censorship. Historically speaking, effective governments have relied on discredit more than death for controlling their secrets--if someone gets a reputation in the field for being crazy, for being unstable, for being whatever, then nobody will listen to them anyway, so who cares if they're blabbing secrets? That said, I agree with the claim that it's very unlikely that someone with the clearance to know about the NSA's latest crypto research would talk about it with others who weren't cleared. Far, far more likely that someone was trying to impress others with a "if only you knew what I knew" fish story. ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
Re: How true can this be?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 - Original Message Subject: Re: How true can this be? From: Janusz A. Urbanowicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Raygene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: gnupg-users@gnupg.org Date: Sunday, January 27, 2008 1:39:04 PM > if a), then b) would land him in jail, quickly More likely a fatal traffic accident or victim of a street mugging with similar outcome. People communicate in and from Jails. JOHN ;) Timestamp: Sunday 27 Jan 2008, 16:22 --500 (Eastern Standard Time) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9-svn4675: (MingW32) Comment: Public Key at: http://tinyurl.com/8cpho Comment: Gossamer Spider Web of Trust: https://www.gswot.org Comment: Homepage: http://tinyurl.com/9ubue iQEcBAEBCgAGBQJHnPY4AAoJEBCGy9eAtCsPXI4H/Ryk+Mb9sn8yPhVH+igLsVwj SjEmdYlZlzFnynqZCNFih8R/XBxGTPnpcpdcPWJEOx8MKvrfavg8diAv3qfTEGxO csUXaBjWi+xuUyzoJs1iwBCAE+ycibUbWX3X/nHDCYC29QHoZGVMxTraNDxf0/7r sakxRn3TqihbLND5/1ACohRctCfxuqCyl1U5aMRQqcxC42THmB1ZcYJjnjnnbkJe u+RR2dmDY/k8zX53O4Y8rHzWGw5Dt6XkMXqpADBnYMiep5j8mhX0Qc/DwIwzIk6g saycj1YjtEc/JEnp5EHawTk6bk+dWfUEHdwRMmcMZWIasS5hVAKJvofL5gekdkA= =gTY2 -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
Re: How true can this be?
On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 01:15:23PM -0800, Raygene wrote: > > While discussing GnuPG on MacNN forum, someone posted the following message: > > Tonight I met this guy who works for an internet security company. they help > governments/law agencies, what he told me is so depressing. apparently, big > brother has the decryption keys for most internet algorithms, they basically > can record the information and decrypt it in %95 of the cases... I am no > security/privacy expert, but its shocking to know that. The guy did not want > to speak much, but he said that mac is the most secure platform from all > operating systems?. does anyone know more about this? > > Does this hold water or was that so-called security expert full of it? both yes and no spooks don't need to break your ciphers to get your encrypted stuff, the simplest technical measure is to inject a trojan into your system that will siphon off what's needed, then there is traffic analysis, TEMPEST, etc etc BTW: I really doubt that if there is a classified shortcut to solve RSA, a random guy from a random security firm would a) know it (COMSEC/INFOSEC is usually classified TOP SECRET as it is conidered of vital importance to state security), and b) he would blabber about it to anyone who would care to listen if a), then b) would land him in jail, quickly Alex -- JID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP: 0x46399138 od zwracania uwagi na detale są lekarze, adwokaci, programiści i zegarmistrze -- Czerski ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
