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Perhaps I am not reading the article correctly, but it sounds to me like RSA products can no longer be trusted.
by dpratt 13y ago
Perhaps I am not reading the article correctly, but it sounds to me like RSA products can no longer be trusted.
- mcphilip 13y agoAssuming that the preference of which algorithm is used in an encryption standard can be influenced by $10 million, then I I'd say you read the article correctly. Very alarming...
- bowlofpetunias 13y agoNo, it sounds like no product from any American company can be trusted as long as the current regime is in place. At least that's the message that comes through loud and clear in the rest of the world.
- michaelcampbell 13y agoThat's quite a leap from the information in that article.
- venomsnake 13y agoAdd it to all previous and you have some basis. Companies that have been compromised[1] - MS, Apple, Facebook, Google, Yahoo, Carriers, Backbone providers - now they are going after security providers. From the big guys only Intel is standing. And that may as well be the next leak. Also think if they subverted some of the big guys antiviral software - it runs at ring 0 usually. [1] Blackmail, threats, bribes, lawful intercepts, warrants, NSLs
- ge0rg 13y agoThat article is merely one piece of information in a long chain (Echelon, the Snowden revelations, Lavabit), and all of them add up to the conclusion that you better not trust any US-based/originated IT security system.
- michaelcampbell 13y ago> any US-based/originated IT security system Perhaps, but the poster to which I replied said any US company, period. Could be he meant what you meant, but that's not what he said.
- tedivm 13y agoWhat makes you think the NSA isn't willing to work with countries outside of the US, either directly or through another spy agency?
- SideburnsOfDoom 13y agoWilling, sure, but probably less able, at least outside of the close allies like the UK.
- gejjaxxita 13y agoWhy less able?
- girvo 13y agoThreatening with legal punishment for noncompliance doesn't work, and neither does appealing to patriotism.
- SideburnsOfDoom 13y agoAre you seriously asking why a branch of the the USA's government has less power outside of the USA?
- enkephalin 13y agoif you consider the fact that the nsa and cia often collaborate closely, and then look at the amount of influence the cia has often displayed in the past, towards foreign countries/regimes etc., gejjaxxita's question seems quite reasonable.
- brdrak 13y agoPlus the blackmail opportunities spying affords.
- sixothree 13y agoOnly the same things that makes me think american companies would not accept money from foreign spy agencies.
- PeterisP 13y agoThe same influence approach ($10m to choose a supposedly okay algorithm) would work just as well for most similar non-American companies, it isn't claimed that RSA did this because of some mandate which would fail if they'd be headquartered in, say, France.
- im3w1l 13y agoWhy keep the contract secret though?
- PeterisP 13y agoOf course the contract must be kept secret for PR and product reputation reasons. It's just as if an antivirus company to accept a contract with a major adware distributor to keep their products marked as appropriate - legal, but best kept secret.
- benihana 13y agoThat's how I read it.
- a3n 13y agoIt sounds to me like they should be sued for selling a product that was knowingly less secure than they claimed.