From holz@net.in.tum.de Fri Jul 6 02:36:59 2018 From: Ralph Holz To: cypherpunks-legacy@lists.cpunks.org Subject: Re: [cryptography] Another data point on SSL "trusted" root CA reliability (S Korea) Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2018 02:36:59 +0000 Message-ID: <172289269556.3881296.6521334473656426685.generated@mail.pglaf.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============1329908825025005781==" --===============1329908825025005781== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, > Why do we assume that government spies will go to such lengths to get > at an individual's data, when a downloaded root-kit on the target PC > suffices? Because some governments like spying on Gmail accounts. I would agree with you if your goal is to snoop on a dissident, there are easier procedures there. But if you want to detect dissent in your population, Gmail, Facebook and Twitter is what you want to check. Ralph -- Dipl.-Inform. Ralph Holz I8: Network Architectures and Services Technische Universitdt M|nchen http://www.net.in.tum.de/de/mitarbeiter/holz/ _______________________________________________ cryptography mailing list cryptography(a)randombit.net http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl leitl http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE --===============1329908825025005781==--