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> Speaking of which, I'm really quite frustrated how many of these recent reports about the NSA elide the technical details. Are you? Well please sign up to wo
by mcherm 13y ago
> Speaking of which, I'm really quite frustrated how many of these recent reports about the NSA elide the technical details.
Are you? Well please sign up to work for the NSA, learn the technical details, then go public with them. The reason that the NYTimes isn't publishing the technical details is because they DON'T KNOW THEM. (They might not publish them if they did.) They don't know them because Edward Snowden was a system administrator not a cryptography expert and he's releasing memos about the process.
- john_b 13y agoFrom the article: > "Intelligence officials asked The Times and ProPublica not to publish this article, saying that it might prompt foreign targets to switch to new forms of encryption or communications that would be harder to collect or read. The news organizations removed some specific facts but decided to publish the article because of the value of a public debate about government actions that weaken the most powerful tools for protecting the privacy of Americans and others." NYT, the Guardian, etc do have access to these details, but chose not to publish them.
- mcherm 13y agoThey say that they were asked not to publish at all, but did so anyway and chose to remove some specific facts. I don't understand how you get from that to concluding that they know (and are suppressing) the particular vulnerabilities that the NSA is exploiting.