Fwd: [Cryptography] Schneier's Internet Security Agency - bad idea because we don't know what it will do

Steve Kinney admin at pilobilus.net
Tue Feb 28 18:42:01 PST 2017


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On 02/26/2017 09:20 PM, grarpamp wrote:

> I'm embarrassed for Bruce Schneier who certainly should know
> better; perhaps this is a forgivable error which he will correct
> soon enough. If not, I should begin to wonder if he's been taken
> over to the dark side (aka the intel community), where fake news,
> disinformation and extra-Constitutional excursions are considered
> honorable pursuits.

Bruce is many things, stupid is not one of them.  Nor can I reasonably
imagine him failing to do at least casual fact checking before making
a Grand Pronouncement.

But when he unconditionally endorsed the Russian Hacking narrative
launched by the Obama Administration in October, 2016, he explicitly
stated that the Obama Administration refrained from announcing the
scandal until /after/ the general election.  That's a direct lie.  And
neither I nor, apparently, anyone else who as examined the narrative
has found any indicators of evidence in support of the assertions made.

One can easily imagine that Bruce took a job on the TOR Project board
as an investment his public image as a "maverick" security expert; or
even that he imagined he could serve a "watchdog" function there.  But
now it seems plausible that he may have rolled all the way over and
embraced the Security State there and then.  If not then, it did not
take him very long to do so with this new Internet Security Agency
bullshit.

Bruce used to be one of the few consistent voices for sanity on the
"security fundamentals" front in the Corporate and Policy worlds.  Oh
well.  One can only wish him ignominious failure in his future
endeavors, until or unless he chucks the load of shit he has picked up
overboard - and does something of material value to make reparations:
 No act of penance, no absolution.

:o/


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