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Um, there's also the client side of this. You can lock up your data all you want, but with the NSA deeply embedded in telecoms and mobile device manufacturers,
by throwit1979 13y ago
Um, there's also the client side of this.
You can lock up your data all you want, but with the NSA deeply embedded in telecoms and mobile device manufacturers, once you try to access said data in a manner consistent with the project's marketing, e.g. on an apple-engineered device running Verizon's comm middleware, the NSA gets your data anyway.
This is the same problem projects like Moxie's silent circle have. It's trivial for the authorities to grab data between the device's interface and the software - they don't need to decrypt a damn thing.
- DanBC 13y agoThey claim the Internet connection between plug and the computer accessing that plug is encrypted.
- throwit1979 13y agoRight, but they have no control over interception rootkits installed on the client. And all of their marketing material suggests that the client in question will usually be your phone. After the VPN software decrypts the data and before it is emitted from the speaker and/or displayed on the screen, there is a cleartext data stream that could be intercepted by a rootkit that the feds could order your telecom provider to silently install.