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>ok fine. Gabriel Giffords shooter posted pictures and details on his myspace profile prior to the assassination attempt. Not exactly. http://www.azcentral.co
by unimpressive 13y ago
>ok fine. Gabriel Giffords shooter posted pictures and details on his myspace profile prior to the assassination attempt.
Not exactly.
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2011/01/08/20110108arizona-congresswoman-gabrielle-giffords-shooting-suspect08brk-ON.html http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2011/01/08/20110108ar...
>What is the use-case here? Some dastardly secret terrorist conspiracy where they collaboratively make detailed plans, over the internet, in cleartext?
Well of course.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/22/ba_jihadist_trial_sentencing/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/22/ba_jihadist_trial_se...
I highly doubt that the NSA's current surveillance program is worth it's potential collateral damage.
- kristopolous 13y agoI'm just amazed that someone would go through all the effort to plan an attack of terror and not do a single web search to see if their inventive cryptography system has any notable issues. I think people can do their own crypto as long as they are exceptionally prudent in doing their own homework.[1] He clearly wasn't. el oh el. ---- [1] The authors of RSA and AES aren't demigods that descended from mount Olympus; they are people that did their own crypto, but with the right amount of focus and caution. It's clearly possible for a competent person to invent their own. Just like someone could invent their own operating system or programming language. It's just rarely appropriate to do so for a single task.