Who bought off Zimmermann?

[John Young]

Phil probably means the infrastructure of email is the vul not the
crypto. Crypto alone is sterile, a boy in a bubble which requires
life support which can be assaulted.

Two boys in a bubble cannot make contact except in the same
bubble. End to end encryption is the bubble.

One description of the safest communication is do not
comm, unicate. Into the mountain refuge go thee, hermit,
ruminate thine self to find god ... is unspeakable.

This is not to suggest that every comsec wizard ever on
earth was not bought at birth or sold as idiot savant. Hell, the
essence of comsec is to sell security deception, aka
Typhoid Mary Mensa.

Hence this marketplace.



At 07:54 PM 8/25/2013, you wrote:
>How ironic and sad it is that Phil Zimmermann, the author of PGP, has
>become so imbued with the enterprise culture that he's now so blind to
>the original peer-to-peer spirit of PGP that he would say things like
>
>    There is no way to do encrypted e-mail where the content is
>    protected.  [1]
>
>This is simply false.
>
>If sender and receiver exchange keys out-of-band and nobody else knows
>the keys, the content can have cryptographically strong protection.
>
>Why would Zimmermann allow himself to be bought off?  What kind of
>pressure is being brought to bear?  Is this protracted world-class human
>engineering in action?
>
>
>[1] 
>http://www.forbes.com/sites/parmyolson/2013/08/09/e-mails-big-privacy-problem-qa-with-silent-circle-co-founder-phil-zimmermann/
>
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>     Long, random latency is part of the price of Internet anonymity.
>
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>    stealthmail: Hide whether you're doing email, or when, or with whom.
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