Re: [leaf-user] NSA back doors

2013-09-09 Thread Mike Noyes
On 09/05/2013 07:47 PM, Victor McAllister wrote: > The Guardian has an interesting article on how to make it a little > harder for NSA to read your encrypted traffic. Evidently they are > tapping fiber, have compromised many routers and have back doors on lots > of commercial software. The terro

Re: [leaf-user] NSA back doors

2013-09-09 Thread Mike Noyes
On 09/05/2013 07:47 PM, Victor McAllister wrote: > The Guardian has an interesting article on how to make it a little > harder for NSA to read your encrypted traffic. Evidently they are > tapping fiber, have compromised many routers and have back doors on lots > of commercial software. The terro

Re: [leaf-user] NSA back doors

2013-09-09 Thread Victor McAllister
On 9/9/2013 9:50 AM, Mike Noyes wrote: > On 09/09/2013 08:29 AM, Thomas Nail wrote: > -snip- >> I totally believe that the NSA has and will continue to have significant >> eavesdropping and signals counter-intelligence capacity, including systems >> cracking and other nefarious measures. Intercepts

Re: [leaf-user] NSA back doors

2013-09-09 Thread Thomas Nail
On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 8:28 AM, Mike Noyes wrote: > On 09/05/2013 07:47 PM, Victor McAllister wrote: > > The Guardian has an interesting article on how to make it a little > > harder for NSA to read your encrypted traffic. Evidently they are > > tapping fiber, have compromised many routers and hav

Re: [leaf-user] NSA back doors

2013-09-09 Thread Victor McAllister
On 9/9/2013 6:28 AM, Mike Noyes wrote: > On 09/05/2013 07:47 PM, Victor McAllister wrote: >> The Guardian has an interesting article on how to make it a little >> harder for NSA to read your encrypted traffic. Evidently they are >> tapping fiber, have compromised many routers and have back doors on

Re: [leaf-user] NSA back doors

2013-09-09 Thread Mike Noyes
On 09/09/2013 08:29 AM, Thomas Nail wrote: -snip- > I totally believe that the NSA has and will continue to have significant > eavesdropping and signals counter-intelligence capacity, including systems > cracking and other nefarious measures. Intercepts have happened and will > continue to happen.

Re: [leaf-user] NSA back doors

2013-09-09 Thread Erich Titl
Hi Victor I have to partially disagree :-) at 09.09.2013 19:10, Victor McAllister wrote: ...> > LEAF can't help you when it comes to fiber taping on the internet Sure it can, just remember the original goal of FreeSWan was opportunistic encryption of data links. It might be possible to break i