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There are no 'backdoor' shenanigans, they comply with subpoenas like everyone else (they uniquely provide a transparency report) the Schneier claim was speculat
by yanw 15y ago
There are no 'backdoor' shenanigans, they comply with subpoenas like everyone else (they uniquely provide a transparency report) the Schneier claim was speculative and he dismissed it later.
In this case it's phishing, read the post.
- andrewcooke 15y agodo you know where he dismissed it? the article at http://www.schneier.com/essay-306.html http://www.schneier.com/essay-306.html is still up, with no disclaimer or obvious link to a correction.
- jonknee 15y agoA week or two later on his blog: http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2010/02/more_details_on.html http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2010/02/more_details_o... "The rumor that China used a system Google put in place to enable lawful intercepts, which I used as a news hook for this essay, has not been confirmed. At this point, I doubt that it's true."
- andrewcooke 15y agothanks. i didn't know that. given how famous the other essay is, he should really update it...
- andrewcooke 15y agowhy do people downvote questions like this? it makes no sense to me at all. am i doing something wrong? i thought i was polite and on-topic.
- nl 15y agoI've noticed this a lot lately. People seem to randomly downvote a post they think is "wrong", with no explanation. Asking for one seems to make it worse. (eg: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2586625 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2586625. Perhaps I was a touch rude, but a better response would have been to reply politely, point out where I was wrong and make me seem like a small-minded fool. Instead, downvotes are the response.)