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Steven Bellovin writes:
> Ever since Microsoft bought the company, these rumors have been
> floating around.
If they're innocent, why would they not issue an unequivocal denial
with supporting argument?
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Interesting point below is OS vendors are extracting data for law
enforcement. I wonder how they are doing it when other tools fails.
(Thanks to JM on another list for the link).
http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/02/26/heres-what-law-enforcement-can-recover-from-a-seized-iphone/
You
On Mar 23, 2013, at 10:04 AM, Adam Back wrote:
> btw is anyone noticing that apparently skype is both able to eavesdrop on
> skype calls, now that microsoft coded themselves in a central backdoor, this
> was initially rumoured, then confirmed somewhat by a Russian police
> statement [1], then co
Ian wrote:
Are we saying then that the threat on the servers has proven so small
that in practice nobody's bothered to push a persistent key
mechanism? Or have I got this wrong, and the clients are doing p2p
exchange of their ephemeral keys, thus dispersing the risk?
Its been a while since I
On 2013-03-24 14:03:43 +0300 (+0300), ianG wrote:
[...]
> I fully expected that when Microsoft purchased Skype in 2011, it
> was only a matter of time before it was backdoored.
[...]
I'll point this out merely because people seem to keep forgetting...
remember Kazaa? Remember how it had no qualms
On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 02:03:43PM +0300, ianG wrote:
> Now, from the combined comments of other posters I draw that the key
> factor in OTR's success was that it uses some form of ADH and
> doesn't use persistent public keys at all. This then allowed an
> immediate startup into secure mode, and c
Hi Adam,
Replying to this one because there's one part I haven't grokked yet:
On 23/03/13 17:04 PM, Adam Back wrote:
Was there anyone trying to use OpenPGP and/or X.509 in IM?
I mean I know many IM protocols support SSL which itself uses X.509, but
that doesnt really meaningfully encrypt the m
