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1. diafyg+S1[view] [source] 2014-12-28 20:54:14
>>Fabian+(OP)
THESE DOCUMENTS CONTAIN EVIDENCE OF ATTACKS ON VPN, SSL, TLS, SSH, TOR. What do we do now? No seriously, what do we do?

The full list of documents: http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/nsa-documents-atta...

The accompanying lecture: http://streaming.media.ccc.de/relive/6258/

Also, obligatory: https://eff.org/donate

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2. uncleb+Se[view] [source] 2014-12-29 01:51:30
>>diafyg+S1
>EVIDENCE OF ATTACKS ON VPN, SSL, TLS, SSH, TOR. What do we do now?

This is why advocating for technical defenses alone is doomed to fail. It's great to employ as much technology as we can, but playing cat-and-mouse with our own government is a losing proposition. They are determined and have unlimited resources (read our money plus the printing press).

There needs to be much more pressing on the legal front, such that unwarranted breach of privacy is criminally punishable in very clear ways. If an individual is not the subject of an investigation, for which proper warrants have been obtained, then no records of any kind should be collected or maintained. Full-stop. And efforts to decrypt private communications, etc. should be considered criminal acts. All of this needs to be protected with very clear and robust whistle-blower laws.

Otherwise, thinking that we will deploy some tech to permanently stymie our government is fantasy. And over-focus on that aim tacitly cedes that our government is entitled to whatever it can crack.

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