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Snowden and Neuromancer. Let's blanket-encrypt all the data.

• rbcoffee 13y ago
  "The Bible, for example, can be sent down the wire now, over UDP, and doesn't have to be checksummed, because The Bible is in effect, metadata" this is a nice writeup, but it reads more like a poem or a stream of consciousness type article. yeah, granted the snowden thing affects us all, but blanket encryption? everyday joe users still doesnt understand pgp, and thats easy. neuromancer is a much more advanced society, with cyborgs, and such, so we're a long way away from any dystopia. i could be wrong
  • Zigurd 13y ago
    > but blanket encryption? everyday joe users still doesnt understand pgp Skype, before it was retrofitted for surveillance, transited 3rd-party nodes and there are zero cases of Skype getting cracked. Skype got so big because it was dead simple to use. There is no reason that every message and every real-time communication could not be very secure, and that the security could be as simple as using Skype was.
• cordite 13y ago
  It seems more like a manifesto than a guide. Many of us are not cryptographers, we have not been educated on what we can do to solve this. This isn't about the idiocy / ignorance behind the Adobe breach with merely encrypted (not hashed) passwords. What would really help is a set of patterns that we can apply, the consequences of what we can do with the data and what we cannot, and what "guarantees" it gives us and the owners of said data.
• upofadown 13y ago
  It's hard to be sure, but I think that the author is calling for IPsec to be made mandatory again in IPV6.