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The NSA _is_ Mossad. The NSA has means way beyond what an individual actor has. The NSA splices cables and taps directly into ISPs and large companies to vacuum
by ohgodplsno 5y ago
The NSA _is_ Mossad. The NSA has means way beyond what an individual actor has. The NSA splices cables and taps directly into ISPs and large companies to vacuum up all your data. Do they read your encrypted data ? Maybe not. But the moment you truly become interesting to them, they _will_ have a wrench to make you give out the password. Don't kid yourself.
- teddyh 5y agoAll that is true. What I was criticizing was the logic of the linked paper, which went, essentially: ‘When I do slightly insecure things, nothing bad observably happens. Therefore, Mossad must not be after me. It follows that it’s OK to not be very secure, since only Mossad could break through my security anyway’. This logic is faulty for the reason I wrote; your slightly bad security can be broken without you necessarily knowing about it, since the reason the entities I termed “the NSA” have for breaking your security is different from the reason which what he termed “Mossad” has.