Fwd: [cryptography] The Compromised Internet

[Eugen Leitl]

On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 11:42:40PM -0700, coderman wrote:

This was an off-list exchange actually, but what the hell.

> On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 11:33 PM, Eugen Leitl <eugen at leitl.org> wrote:
> >...
> > There is no weather in LEO but space weather.
> 
> this reminds of the telcos who all say "redundant fault tolerant
> paths" are possible through the same right-of-way.

LEO is a volume, not a surface. You can have as many flocks up
there as you like, if you can afford it.
 
> you're optimizing against natural / random failures, and completely

I'm optimizing against people who walk up, and dismantle your
wireless mesh, or down the Internet in your country. It's really
hard to jam the sky, especially in VIS range.

> and totally vulnerable to active interference.

Yes, you can fry them with ground laser or fill up orbit
with tungsten pellets. However, such things are quite frowned
upon, especially the latter option.
 
> do i have to spell it out?

Surprise me.
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