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> If the USG wants to protect us from any country they consider an aggressor in the info wars, then they need to equip every one of us (its citizens) with the t
by mpyne 13y ago
> If the USG wants to protect us from any country they consider an aggressor in the info wars, then they need to equip every one of us (its citizens) with the tools to protect ourselves.
Well the USG has given us SHA-1, NSA Suite B collection of Cryptographic standards, NIST-organized crypto standards, and have funded the development and most of the ongoing maintainence of Tor.
So they're trying to be helpful in that regards, which is why you can't just talk about USG as if it was a single-headed monster.
- malandrew 13y agoI'm saying that they should further promote the usage of everyone of those technologies everywhere, all the time, by all the people of these United States. Protecting us from enemies that could coerce future leaders has the great benefit of also protecting us from the NSA.
- AnthonyMouse 13y ago>Well the USG has given us SHA-1, NSA Suite B collection of Cryptographic standards, NIST-organized crypto standards, and have funded the development and most of the ongoing maintainence of Tor. Certainly. But they've also given us CALEA-mandated backdoors into telecommunications equipment and a regulatory environment that encourages wanton third party custody over sensitive information. Obviously some of this is subtle and unintended. For example, allowing government-issued spectrum monopolies to be leveraged into walled garden mobile devices is seriously bad for security because it excludes anyone from improving the security of the device's OS or system components other than the manufacturers/carriers who coincidentally have the incentive to deny anything that would reduce user dependence on cloud-based data storage. The point being, even if we're not doing nothing, we could be doing more.
- mpyne 13y ago> The point being, even if we're not doing nothing, we could be doing more. Fully agreed on that!