On Mon, 2013-09-09 at 09:20 +0900, Joel Rees wrote: > On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 3:27 AM, <lati...@vcn.bc.ca> wrote: > > Hello list. > > What do you think about it? > > > > https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/09/the_nsa_is_brea.html > > "Those that didn't know about it were gobsmacked." > > If any of that surprises you, you haven't been paying attention. > > Technology, we can work on a few things to hold them at bay for a little > longer. > > But keep your nose clean. Don't be a target. > > Anything that must be private, keep it off the internet. > > Have as few things that have to be kept private as you can. > > Develop a good relationship with God, by whatever name you call That > Ultimate Entity, because that's going to be your only help in the end.
"They're doing it primarily by cheating, not by mathematics." There's no god and there's no super mighty NSA/USA. -------- Forwarded Message -------- From: Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net> To: wl...@ml.gentei.org Subject: Re: wl-fcc vs encrypted mails Date: Mon, 09 Sep 2013 02:44:53 +0200 On Sun, 2013-09-08 at 19:14 +0200, Michael Welle wrote: > Ken Gunderson wrote: > > In light of recent NSA & Snowden events and quantum computing... it's > > probably a moot point anyhow :( > I really don't know what's going on. I like to think that all the > recent rumours are based on 'weaknesses' or backdoors in products like > VPN endpoints, closed source software systems, x509 certs from > commercial vendors, on weak passphrases etc. But I'm not an expert on > this things ;(. I don't think that they are able to decrypt PGP keys very fast. I guess it still takes years to decrypt a key. Perhaps the decryption doesn't take 10 or 20 years anymore, but just 2 or 5 years, however, rolling keys should protect against this. Sure, they store everything, just in case, but they also need to delete the tons of useless data very often. IOW, even if they should be able to get access to all data, how should they store such an amount of data, how should they be able to take stock of all the data? The hype is ridiculous. Sometimes I guess that Snowden isn't a traitor, but an employee of the USA and what we hear and see is a "marketing campaign" to bluff us, how mighty the USA should be, while they are not half as mighty. It's inconclusively, but to be fair, I'm not interested in this and didn't follow the news and didn't read opinions of experts. Intelligence agencies do, what intelligence agencies do, so I'm not surprised. Computer web experts from the police of all nations aren't able to block all the phishing and child porn websites, but the NSA should be able to control everything. How do they do it? Do you think the people working for the police are idiots and the NSA guys are super heroes? Do you think the NSA has got computers from outer space? For sure, for the NSA experts with the best knowhow do work and they might have better computers than anybody else, but they don't have superheroes powers and they still use human technology. I don't believe the hype. 2 cents, Ralf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1378688197.7857.33.camel@archlinux
