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What's the point of spying on traffic you can't read?
by rhacker 7y ago
What's the point of spying on traffic you can't read?
- alexis_fr 7y agoMaybe the NSA can decrypt RSA or Diffie-Hellman. We don’t know. Maybe they save it for when they’ll get the keys. Another way is to saturate so much the network with spy equipment that it’s futile to search and remove it.
- michaelt 7y agoPlenty of unencrypted traffic still around - connections between datacentres via dedicated fibers, phone calls, SMS messages, e-mails....
- ikiris 7y ago"Ssl added and removed here". Not everyone treats long haul as secure until they learn the hard way. Few are big enough to find out.
- jlgaddis 7y ago"We kill people based on metadata." -- Gen. Michael Hayden (retired), former Director of both the CIA and NSA.
- ashtonkem 7y agoMetadata is incredibly useful in its own right, and spy agencies regularly record huge amounts of data in the hope that they can decrypt it in the future.
- goatinaboat 7y agoEven if you can’t read a single packet, noting a surge in bandwidth utilisation is a signal in and of itself. But you probably can read the headers.