Salting Leaks and Releases by FOIA and Court
John Young
jya at pipeline.com
Sat Sep 21 09:16:21 PDT 2019
Suspend full belief in orchestrated leaks and releases by FOIA and
courts of "classifed" material, lipsticked with redactions and
withholdings. Gotten kind of stupid with hoo-hawing headlines about
stuff no way to double-check. Pretense of redacting and withholding
to protect sources and identities is formulaic. A swell deception
operation is the openness about testing crypto, a boon to those who
relish the free exposure, praise contributors, tut-tut concealing,
never emphasizing long-standing practice of implanting backdoors,
weaknesses and backstabbing comsec, infosec, above all natsec.
Fair amount of that has been a characteristic of cypherpunks since
its beginning, perhaps due to the Internet and Web design to do just
that, SM and searches, porn and illursory anonymity, take your pick
of belief and salting a con.
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