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You might also reasonably ask why tptacek and friends weren't blowing the whistle as this is huge news to most.
by dreamfactory 13y ago
You might also reasonably ask why tptacek and friends weren't blowing the whistle as this is huge news to most.
- DanBC 13y agoI can't speak for tptacek. I don't know what he and his friends were doing. But I've been telling people to encrypt everything, and to assume the government can read everything, for very many years. Sure, I lack gravitas, but still. We were telling people about it. A Google web search for Echelon before 1999 reveals many hits for the secret codename (as well as many not relevant hits) https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=echelon&sa=X&ei=IXWRUpCGE8eRhQeKxoHYAw&ved=0CCAQpwUoBg&source=lnt&tbs=cdr%3A1%2Ccd_min%3A%2Ccd_max%3A01%2F01%2F1999&tbm= https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=echelon&sa=X&ei=IXWRUpCGE8... We successfully fought against idiotic ideas from government to control use of encryption (EG Clipper chip). We told you to use encryption. We told you they could listen. We told you they were listening. What more could people have done? http://webjcli.ncl.ac.uk/1997/issue1/akdeniz1.html#ukpolicy http://webjcli.ncl.ac.uk/1997/issue1/akdeniz1.html#ukpolicy
- Nimi 13y agoI think there's a strong distinction between "the government can read everything unencrypted" and "the government has a horde of vulnerability researchers, and routinely infects huge numbers of computers with their code". For the sake of discussion, I will concede that the former was well-known. The latter, IMO, wasn't. What more could people have done? Good question. Maybe try and contact investigative journalists, although I have had no luck doing that for an unrelated issue I feel strongly about (NBA game fixing).