On 2012-09-05, at 6:16 AM, Eugen Leitl wrote: > http://nplusonemag.com/leave-your-cellphone-at-home > > Sarah Resnick > > Leave Your Cellphone at Home > > Interview with Jacob Appelbaum > > From OCCUPY Gazette 4, out May 1.
Very interesting read. I'm not sure I buy the theories for the new data centre. Drive capacity has increased on the same order of magnitude as Internet traffic, [1,2] so I doubt the increase in traffic from current targets is the reason for it. I also doubt extending the surveilled set by 5% to include the US is the reason. Besides, according to the whistleblowers, everything that's attributed to it has been going on for a long time. Unless there's concrete evidence I haven't heard of, I tend to believe it actually is for "cybersecurity", specifically the insider threat. These agencies monitor their own people (and soon-to-be corporate partners) far more than the public. On that note, apparently there's half a dozen versions of HR 3523 around, and NSA versus DHS (aka "the happy face") is an artificial distinction, meant to appease. [3] Anyway, I think cryptography will depend more and more on steganography -- and in the case of Tor, covert/subliminal channels. Imagine a protocol where Alice sends Bob a steady stream of garbage, and the message is encoded in the inter-packet timing noise. ;) [1] http://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Hard_drive_capacity_over_time.svg [2] http://www.useit.com/alertbox/980405.html [3] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S40Qx9kVPoY#t=29m20s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S40Qx9kVPoY#t=50m _______________________________________________ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
