21 Aug
2013
21 Aug
'13
7:43 p.m.
On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 5:16 AM, Eugen Leitl <eugen@leitl.org> wrote:
This past January, Laura Poitras received a curious e-mail from an anonymous stranger requesting her public encryption key. For almost two years, Poitras had been working on a documentary about surveillance, and she occasionally received queries from strangers. She replied to this one and sent her public key — allowing him or her to send an encrypted e-mail that only Poitras could open, with her private key
Then the NSA MitMed her unauthenticated plaintext email, replacing her public key with theirs, and were able to intercept all of the Snowden emails. Oops! -- Tony Arcieri