greyman

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by greyman 13y ago
Yes, that was exactly my point - solution based on secure key management doesn't work for most people, so probably something completely different should be invented. I don't have solution that would work, I was just answering the
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by greyman 13y ago
For example, being able to communicate in an encrypted way with anyone . This is not yet a solved problem, because now I can do that only with someone who is able and is willing to install PGP or other tools - a very limited number of peop
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by greyman 13y ago
What about metadata? Can I also hide that it is me who does crypto-chatting?
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by greyman 13y ago
Why are you calling it blog-spam? They rewrote the story to readable English and offered it to the Tech community. (Who reads Le Monde? ;-));
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by greyman 13y ago
We'll see how it takes off when more users will come. It works fine feature-wise for me, it's just noticeably slower than Google Reader was... they probably don't have a large enough infrastructure yet.
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by greyman 13y ago
Yes I see it the same way. Still, I don't understand what the article wants to deduce or imply from that.
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by greyman 13y ago
Exactly my though. ;) I was thinking recently whether I shouldn't go back to have my phone invoices and bank monthly reports to be delivered by snail instead of email, like in those old times. ;-)
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by greyman 13y ago
Why? They will take his data, as the Chinese did, and then what else would they do?
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by greyman 13y ago
> You have to trust that a hot wheels toy car won't have a secret hidden camera transmitting back to the government Dude, but did you hear about the recent surveillance leaks? ;-) What was revealed is almost exactly analogous to toy
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by greyman 13y ago
Yes, this is exactly what I was thinking. Moreover, they could run their own exit nodes.
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by greyman 13y ago
Or it is rather 99.995? ;-)
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by greyman 13y ago
But, for example, if they would run a query "select everyone who uses email encryption", and then analyze this subset of people further, then you might have placed yourself under radar, and they can have a closer look at your othe
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by greyman 13y ago
But is it also true if they can monitor the whole Internet traffic?
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by greyman 13y ago
> Human access should not be allowed Yes, of course, but this is not enforceable. You have to trust the company that they will not allow it. You can't ensure it.
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by greyman 13y ago
But what protection of stored data do you mean should Congress find, by introducing some Laws? Because, well, if the data are not encrypted on the server, then someone could still take them... that's how Internet works. For now, the on
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India sets up elaborate system to tap phone calls, e-mail(reuters.com)
3 points by greyman 13y ago|0 comments
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by greyman 13y ago
Yes, that's right. I wonder whether Snowden could foresee this consequence of the leaks. It's obvious - the countries which possess such technologies will have big advantage over countries which do not, so they have no other optio
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by greyman 13y ago
>> The revelations that have emerged will undoubtedly trigger a reaction abroad as policymakers and ordinary users realize the huge disadvantages of their dependence on U.S.-controlled networks in social media, cloud computing, and te
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Google's chief legal officer denies company is 'in cahoots with NSA'(guardian.co.uk)
1 points by greyman 13y ago|0 comments
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by greyman 13y ago
BUT... the server (at least in Google Reader case) actually plays a crucial role - it "caches" the RSS feeds, so if you subscribe to some, you can see the history of the feed, i.e. the older articles, which are already not listed
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Australia suspected to have PRISM data: Ludlam(pcadvisor.co.uk)
1 points by greyman 13y ago|0 comments
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by greyman 13y ago
As I understand it, they don't have to focus to the data center of those companies when doing the duplication. For example for emails: emails travel unencrypted through the hops, and they would store them all, and then constantly analy
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by greyman 13y ago
Yes, but that vacuuming is apparently being done, just not under PRISM (for example, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A ). PRISM is just one method of getting the data.
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by greyman 13y ago
According to this article ( https://sumanrs.wordpress.com/2012/04/14/youtube-yearly-cost... ), about 76 petabytes is stored to Youtube per year. (calculated from the released info, that "one hour of video
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by greyman 13y ago
But if you investigate something and a new suspect emerges, you want to hear and analyze his calls in the past, don't you? And how can you achieve this if not by collecting all phone calls?
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by greyman 13y ago
I installed Ghostery just a few days ago, and it is clearly indicated that it is opt-in. I don't see a problem here, looks to me a bit like an attack against Ghostery. But of course, open-source alternative with the same functionality
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Forget PRISM, the recent NSA leaks are plain: Digital privacy doesn’t exist(thenextweb.com)
88 points by greyman 13y ago|15 comments
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by greyman 13y ago
Actually, I am still waiting for Google and other companies to offer us some real explanation. What could have happened? Maybe they didn't expect it will be whistle-blowed, maybe they realized that the NSA is so technologically strong
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by greyman 13y ago
I am also disappointed by the tech giants behavior, but not primarily for PRISM. Yes, they shouldn't give the data that willingly, but what I see as much more troubling is the agencies ability to tap into the net's full flow of co
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by greyman 13y ago
I see it the same way. It's completely irrelevant that you don't have a NSA-backdoors, when you are "cached" (see in wikipedia: Room 641A), i.e. all Internet traffic (at least in the U.S.) and all phone calls are collect

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