fuck these guys

[James A. Donald]

On 2013-11-08 04:23, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Eugen Leitl quotes:
>
>> The traffic shown in the slides below is now all encrypted and the
>> work the NSA/GCHQ staff did on understanding it, ruined.
>
> Encryption is not a solution to the problem.  The attack on Google
> shows that NSA/GCHQ that companies in Western countries and their
> employees are legitimate targets for covert operations by their
> intelligence services (same for the BND attacks on 1&1 and other
> German ISPs, we don't have to single out the Obama administration or
> the British here).

I have from time to time received some very odd directives regarding 
cryptography.

I assumed that this reflects the fact that every businessman has 
unavoidably committed thousands of felonies "Show me the man, and I will 
find you the crime"

Recent events would suggest that this analysis was correct.