-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 02/26/2017 09:20 PM, grarpamp wrote:
I'm embarrassed for Bruce Schneier who certainly should know better; perhaps this is a forgivable error which he will correct soon enough. If not, I should begin to wonder if he's been taken over to the dark side (aka the intel community), where fake news, disinformation and extra-Constitutional excursions are considered honorable pursuits.
Bruce is many things, stupid is not one of them. Nor can I reasonably imagine him failing to do at least casual fact checking before making a Grand Pronouncement. But when he unconditionally endorsed the Russian Hacking narrative launched by the Obama Administration in October, 2016, he explicitly stated that the Obama Administration refrained from announcing the scandal until /after/ the general election. That's a direct lie. And neither I nor, apparently, anyone else who as examined the narrative has found any indicators of evidence in support of the assertions made. One can easily imagine that Bruce took a job on the TOR Project board as an investment his public image as a "maverick" security expert; or even that he imagined he could serve a "watchdog" function there. But now it seems plausible that he may have rolled all the way over and embraced the Security State there and then. If not then, it did not take him very long to do so with this new Internet Security Agency bullshit. Bruce used to be one of the few consistent voices for sanity on the "security fundamentals" front in the Corporate and Policy worlds. Oh well. One can only wish him ignominious failure in his future endeavors, until or unless he chucks the load of shit he has picked up overboard - and does something of material value to make reparations: No act of penance, no absolution. :o/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJYtjT5AAoJEECU6c5XzmuqwuUH/3Z2Y2ZGK4lRZa4zzLVPhH8t OiXzifuhldDVqzo0XehYIYlyw/PwHblnjYOX3Dq2NBdlq87LoZKS2QMiJzZmjj0R RhLCm0jVZ48cIMaRT80JOu1uwwy7/iMTdgxcW+0wiS+WZqgVVZD8vorMs+8Dkn4F 7LOgUutPy2XCaarFDaSAshM2pdaYlkZvhOVJn2Fkvyf7QjX4wUgYeLbZ/9H05EY4 CsVIXpAGp3DCTw0rbri9Bc8HFijK8GVpFj5UBQnfvRLYKejEhpdE3jHRPb7oT90D s78NTpAyQuLOroXr1v6libdeXFYKD8D3sKQd1TrukDIYt7OuSqXEwzCz1c3WoE4= =QKmh -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----