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Any time a broker or bank has a message for you, they send you an email telling you to log into their https website to communicate. It's not that difficult and

Any time a broker or bank has a message for you, they send you an email telling you to log into their https website to communicate. It's not that difficult and, no, the NSA is not going to crack any major encryption standards in the next 5 years. But if they do, worry about your broker and bank, not people sending you law questions.

itry 13y ago
They dont have to crack any major encryption standards. They have other options: * Force the bank to give them your data. * Force the bank to give them their private key. * Store all encrypted traffic and decrypt it some day in the future. * Break into your computer and monitor what you do. * Force certification authorities to help them with a man in the middle attack. And probably many more I cannot think of.
- mynameishere 13y ago
  Communications is not involved in any of those things. Yep, rubber hose cryptanalysis is always a threat. I get that. Totally beside the point. A private server operator could destroy data as soon as it was consumed, if she pleased. Store all encrypted traffic and decrypt it some day in the future. Not going to happen, and if it does we'll all have bigger problems to worry about, as I already addressed.
ihsw 13y ago
That's awfully disingenuous, Glenn Greenwald's partner being detained should make it pretty clear to you: you don't even need to be doing anything for the government to target you. Targeting dissidents isn't anything new, however targeting their friends and family is definitely a very dark precedent to set. The "War on Terror" has been slowly but surely moving towards a "War on Dissent." Not only are dissenters unsafe, but their friends and family too. The risk for Groklaw's P Jones is not small, however the risk to her friends and family is non-zero. That is most definitely reason enough to abdicate from public discourse.

itry 13y ago

They dont have to crack any major encryption standards. They have other options: * Force the bank to give them your data. * Force the bank to give them their private key. * Store all encrypted traffic and decrypt it some day in the future. * Break into your computer and monitor what you do. * Force certification authorities to help them with a man in the middle attack. And probably many more I cannot think of.

mynameishere 13y ago
Communications is not involved in any of those things. Yep, rubber hose cryptanalysis is always a threat. I get that. Totally beside the point. A private server operator could destroy data as soon as it was consumed, if she pleased. Store all encrypted traffic and decrypt it some day in the future. Not going to happen, and if it does we'll all have bigger problems to worry about, as I already addressed.

ihsw 13y ago

That's awfully disingenuous, Glenn Greenwald's partner being detained should make it pretty clear to you: you don't even need to be doing anything for the government to target you. Targeting dissidents isn't anything new, however targeting their friends and family is definitely a very dark precedent to set. The "War on Terror" has been slowly but surely moving towards a "War on Dissent." Not only are dissenters unsafe, but their friends and family too. The risk for Groklaw's P Jones is not small, however the risk to her friends and family is non-zero. That is most definitely reason enough to abdicate from public discourse.