----- Forwarded message from Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org> ----- Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2013 12:48:53 -0700 From: Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org> To: liberationtech <liberationtech@lists.stanford.edu> Cc: Richard Brooks <rrb@acm.org> Subject: Re: [liberationtech] NYTimes and Guardian on NSA User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130801 Thunderbird/17.0.8 Reply-To: liberationtech <liberationtech@lists.stanford.edu> On 9/5/13 12:32 PM, Richard Brooks wrote:
Latest articles:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/05/nsa-gchq-encryption-codes-secur...
I find most of this (if not all) silly. They seem shocked that the NSA does cryptanalysis. It would be nice if the newspapers had people with some knowledge of the domain writing articles.
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