Re: [Trisquel-users] NSA Decryption capabilities

2013-09-19 Thread fernando . negro
A most *important* movie that everyone living in the US will want to see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8XNbgxntW4 (And, an alternative footage of this same lecture: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjALf12PAWc)

Re: [Trisquel-users] NSA Decryption capabilities

2013-09-12 Thread stask
More today. http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57602701-38/nsa-disguised-itself-as-google-to-spy-say-reports/ http://falkvinge.net/2013/09/12/the-nsa-and-u-s-congress-has-destroyed-ssl-we-must-rebuild-web-security-from-the-ground-up/

Re: [Trisquel-users] NSA Decryption capabilities

2013-09-12 Thread oralfloss
How is receiver computer B going to get the shared key?

Re: [Trisquel-users] NSA Decryption capabilities

2013-09-11 Thread fernando . negro
The Truthseeker: US civil war is coming (E22) www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wu8fjNr61Q

Re: [Trisquel-users] NSA Decryption capabilities

2013-09-07 Thread erikthorsen
I'd would like to point out that OpenBSD backdoor thing is entirely unproven and by all accounts just nonsense.

Re: [Trisquel-users] NSA Decryption capabilities

2013-09-07 Thread fernando . negro
(But, just to finish my comments in this thread...) I don't know if other people, in here, realize how *serious* all of this is... (Forget the light critics, made by the controlled civil liberties organizations, and pay real attention to what's going on around you.) You have an

Re: [Trisquel-users] NSA Decryption capabilities

2013-09-07 Thread atilio . baroni
For those who have more technical knowledge (and thought the first article lacked details), this guy read the snowden files and has a good idea of what the NSA can and cannot do: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/05/nsa-how-to-remain-secure-surveillance He didn't use the words Free

Re: [Trisquel-users] NSA Decryption capabilities

2013-09-07 Thread fernando . negro
The *NSA can tap Android systems(!)* (and also other, non-Linux, mobile devices). There's an initial report here: http://rt.com/news/nsa-smart-phones-spying-563/ And, I'll probably post some more links about the Android part (that most interests me) once I find some more information

Re: [Trisquel-users] NSA Decryption capabilities

2013-09-07 Thread fernando . negro
Correction: Since this is not about decryption capabilities (but tapping capabilities), I think it deserves a thread of its own. So, I'll just create one, instead.

Re: [Trisquel-users] NSA Decryption capabilities

2013-09-06 Thread erikthorsen
These articles sure seem to be lacking in any real meaty details. Seems like a lot of marketing hyperbole to make people paranoid to be perfectly honest.. ..But if I might speculate aloud a little then. Getting around SSL is obviously easy, as with 99% of websites you need only go knock on

Re: [Trisquel-users] NSA Decryption capabilities

2013-09-06 Thread fernando . negro
World Wide Wiretap, is what I've heard that WWW stands for in intelligence circles, from a journalist who has been denouncing this kind of surveillance for (many) years. http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/5/5263/1.html

Re: [Trisquel-users] NSA Decryption capabilities

2013-09-06 Thread jason
lacking in any real meaty details. Like exactly how it's done? And with who? Of course - These details are guarded by still higher levels of classification.

Re: [Trisquel-users] NSA Decryption capabilities

2013-09-06 Thread tegskywalker
What I dont like is how they spent $255 million of tax payer money to basically snoop on the people that had no choice into paying for it since that's how taxes work. That is a lot of money going into taking away not only the freedom of Americans, but other countries. I also don't like how

Re: [Trisquel-users] NSA Decryption capabilities

2013-09-06 Thread mikko . viinamaki
Who's the conspiracy theorist now?

Re: [Trisquel-users] NSA Decryption capabilities

2013-09-06 Thread fernando . negro
And, here goes a(nother) warning that I know will be (once more) ignored by the less politically informed, aware and sophisticated... Watch out for the *fake* alternatives, that the media (http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/05/government-betrayed-internet-nsa-spying)

Re: [Trisquel-users] NSA Decryption capabilities

2013-09-06 Thread davidvargas1
JXSELF check the link, http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/5/5263/1.html

Re: [Trisquel-users] NSA Decryption capabilities

2013-09-06 Thread onpon4
1984 Hosting is called that as a reference to Nineteen Eighty-Four, obviously. It's obvious what the name means: that it's the hosting service you use to stay away from such a government as in Nineteen Eighty-Four. Anyway, what you linked to isn't even 1984 Hosting, it's Mailpile. I'm not

Re: [Trisquel-users] NSA Decryption capabilities

2013-09-06 Thread erikthorsen
No, I mean any facts whatsoever actually. Like what they're even doing. From a cursory reading those articles are just nothing but run for the hills hysteria with a few buzz words mixed in. So figured it might be worth writing a quick little summary of what kind of stuff they SEEM to be

Re: [Trisquel-users] NSA Decryption capabilities

2013-09-06 Thread onpon4
We don't live in Oceania. The closest thing to that in the world is North Korea, which I'm certain none of us live in because the Internet is heavily censored there (or more appropriately, they have their own Internet). There is no reason to believe that we have fake movements and

Re: [Trisquel-users] NSA Decryption capabilities

2013-09-06 Thread fernando . negro
It's obvious what the name means: that it's the hosting service you use to stay away from such a government as in Nineteen Eighty-Four. Or the other way around... - https://trisquel.info/en/forum/fundraising-campaign-privacy-friendly-mail-tlsopengpgetc-software#comment-42176 (And the joke

Re: [Trisquel-users] NSA Decryption capabilities

2013-09-06 Thread icarolongo
It is free software. It's good, doesn't matters the company. *You* have the freedom to change all if you want. Linux kernel is made by many private companies like Red Hat, SUSE, HP, Google, etc and you probably use it. With GNU project is the same. Many companies help with the project and

Re: [Trisquel-users] NSA Decryption capabilities

2013-09-06 Thread coxcable8282
I dont think anyone can break strong encryption. The NSA is just getting the keys, monitoring the keystrokes etc, not defeating the encryption. I think users can beat it, it is just harder and less convieniant. As an analogy, you can beat any audio drm by just holding a tape recorder next

Re: [Trisquel-users] NSA Decryption capabilities

2013-09-06 Thread icarolongo
I know about this. Like years ago someone said about backdoor from FBI in OpenBSD.

Re: [Trisquel-users] NSA Decryption capabilities

2013-09-06 Thread fernando . negro
We don't live in Oceania, *yet*... But, as I recently said elsewhere (https://trisquel.info/en/forum/ubuntu-1310-second-step-spy-its-users#comment-41977), that's the kind of regime that is planned for us. The technetronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society.

Re: [Trisquel-users] NSA Decryption capabilities

2013-09-06 Thread onpon4
I know that there are problems, and I know that people want power. But any assertion that someone already has enough power to do that kind of deception is baseless.

[Trisquel-users] NSA Decryption capabilities

2013-09-05 Thread atilio . baroni
http://www.propublica.org/article/the-nsas-secret-campaign-to-crack-undermine-internet-encryption Well, this proves that a purely technological solution to encryption/privacy is not nearly enough. This is definitely a political fight.

Re: [Trisquel-users] NSA Decryption capabilities

2013-09-05 Thread ahj
This is huge. If the NSA can control HTTPS and other encryption protocols, then they have effectively broken the internet. It's over.

Re: [Trisquel-users] NSA Decryption capabilities

2013-09-05 Thread tegskywalker
Here's another link about them getting around SSL, VPNs, and other secure protocols through brute force. http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/09/05/nsa-snowden-encryption-cracked/2772721/ Scary indeed.