On 4/30/15, dan@geer.org <dan@geer.org> wrote:
The advance of technology seems to be making everyone like spies and so forth.
you see cyber as dual use. does same apply to spy? ( gotta know side channels to close the side channels ... )
Hal Varian somewhat famously said that what the rich have today everyone will want tomorrow. I'd suggest that what the intelligence community has today the rich will want tomorrow.
and the hacker has today? bespoke a powerful antidote to pre-enabled CUSTOMS interdicted shady shipped consumer computer and network technology. Cisco shipping slapstick[0] is fooling nobody :)
While some like to say that the cure for objectionable (to them) speech is more speech (by them), that does not hold true so much in the wider world where I have concluded that the cure for technologic threats is not more technology, but less.
where is the robustness of decentralized in this picture Dan? we advocate end-to-end for privacy, why no less true for end to end at every peer in the graph? [ ignore the many billion dollar business models for sake of argument, and consider long investment decentralized technology alternatives. though market alone may determine the fate full enough, ...] just because it is difficult and novel, it need not be foolhardy. best regards, with anticipation to your future word and cryptome++ for http://geer.tinho.net/geer.rsa.28ii14.txt re-up :P 0. "Cisco posts kit to empty houses to dodge NSA chop shops - Kit sent to SmallCo of Nowheresville to avoid NSA interception profiles" http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/03/18/want_to_dodge_nsa_supply_chain_taps_...