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Nobody is secure against their home country government, which has the power to both: -- Mount black bag attacks on your premises. -- Snoop the networks of inte
by CurtMonash 10y ago
Nobody is secure against their home country government, which has the power to both:
-- Mount black bag attacks on your premises.
-- Snoop the networks of internet service providers.
On the other hand, most or all of the following are true of my keys-to-the-kingdom email account (the one from which most other passwords can be reset):
-- It is very unlikely to be hacked by any information guesses of my password, social engineering of my "secret question" information, shenanigans with my mobile phone, etc.
-- It is with a provider who seems less likely to get hacked than even Yahoo.
-- It has security that would be hard to brute force.
-- It has a unique password that I don't use on other, more vulnerable accounts.
Even so, I assume that all my communications are available to the US government, at least by after-the-fact subpoena if not actually real time.
- mSparks 10y ago->Nobody is secure against their home country government, which has the power to both: -- Mount black bag attacks on your premises. -- Snoop the networks of internet service providers. Indeed, not even our governments are safe from the government. like when they forced backdoors in juniper routers, then used juniper routers in government facilities. resulting in widespread compromise of most if not all government facilities and the loss of billions of dollars r&d advantage. At least they put tons of effort into securing the voting system and didnt let a russian stooge get declared leader of the free world tho. so there is still some hope. for us tho. encrypted at rest, and intrusion detection generally good practice.