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Yasha Levine has been promoting this view for years now. He doesn't appear to have a complete understanding of the technology he writes about, but still makes t
by c0nducktr 9y ago
Yasha Levine has been promoting this view for years now. He doesn't appear to have a complete understanding of the technology he writes about, but still makes these accusations that anything the USA spends money on must be compromised.
See: https://pando.com/2014/07/16/tor-spooks/ https://pando.com/2014/07/16/tor-spooks/
another: https://surveillancevalley.com/blog/government-backed-privacy-tools-are-not-going-to-protect-us-from-president-trump https://surveillancevalley.com/blog/government-backed-privac...
and another: https://pando.com/2015/03/01/internet-privacy-funded-by-spooks-a-brief-history-of-the-bbg/ https://pando.com/2015/03/01/internet-privacy-funded-by-spoo...
He brings up some good points, but then jumps to conclusions which don't actually seem reasonable.
- wuch 9y agoI kinda wonder if he will eventually substantiate his claims in book he is working on now: "Surveillance Valley" (planned for release in 2018). Otherwise what he is doing now, with all those grandiose conclusions, seems pretty harmful for actual security and privacy of users.