Snowden on the Twitters

[rysiek]

Dnia piątek, 2 października 2015 09:57:58 Steve Kinney pisze:
> On 10/02/2015 06:52 AM, rysiek wrote:
> > Dnia czwartek, 1 października 2015 07:23:28 John Young pisze:
> >> HTTPS has become a fetish, maybe always was. It serves as an
> >> end point fig leaf,
> > 
> > And yet it rises the cost of spying. It's not enough to be
> > passive listener, one has to become active and MITMing.
> > Possible? Yes. More costly? Definitely.
> > 
> > Consider: http://cryptome.org/2013/09/cpunks-crypto.htm

Apologies, wrong link -- I meant this:
http://smarimccarthy.is/blog/2014/05/28/engineering-our-way-out-of-fascism/

-_-;

> The cost also depends on the scope of targeted communications:
> Leaked NSA docs indicate that persistent full take collection and
> retention against /visitors/ to specified websites is initiated
> automatically.  MITM against the servers in question, for
> surveillance AND content modification in transit against some
> specified end users, is well within the budgets and tech
> capabilities of the FVEYE States.

Regardless, we can *easily* rise the cost of it. And if we can, we should.

-- 
Pozdrawiam,
Michał "rysiek" Woźniak

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