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by throwaway654329 4y ago
There are plenty of leaked classified documents from NSA (and others) that have been verified as legitimate. Many people working in public know stuff that hasn’t been published in full. Here is one example with documents: https:/&#x2
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by throwaway654329 4y ago
Agreed. It can be both but historically companies generally do the sabotage upon request, if not preemptively. This hasn’t changed much at all in favor of protecting regular users, except maybe with the expansion of HTTPS, and a few other e
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by throwaway654329 4y ago
Which programs do you mean specifically? We know the nature of the mass surveillance changed and expanded immensely after 9/11 in a major way, especially domestically.
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by throwaway654329 4y ago
It is wrong to imply he is unreasonable here. NIST has been dismissive and unprofessional towards him and others in this process. They look terrible because they’re not doing their jobs. Several of his student’s proposals won the most recen
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by throwaway654329 4y ago
You are not accurately reflecting the history that is presented in the very blog post we are discussing. NSA made DES weaker for everyone by reducing the key size. IBM happily went along. The history of IBM is dark. NSA credited tweaks to
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by throwaway654329 4y ago
Sure, EFF played a major role in that case as did Bernstein. It made several lawyers into superstars in legal circles and they all clearly acknowledge his contributions to the case. Still you imply that he shouldn’t have credit for that fir
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by throwaway654329 4y ago
We are probably pretty much in agreement. It looks like they’ve got something to hide and they’re hiding it with delay tactics, among others. They aren’t alone in failing to uphold FOIA laws, but they’re important in a key way: once the sta
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by throwaway654329 4y ago
The full story is interesting and well documented: https://cr.yp.to/export.html Personally my favorite part of the history is on the “Dishonest behavior by government lawyers” page: https://cr.yp.to/export&#
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by throwaway654329 4y ago
Indeed. Have my upvote stranger. The related “just ignore NIST” crowd is intentionally or unintentionally dismissing serious issues of governance. Anyone who deploys this argument is questionable in my mind, essentially bad faith actors, es
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by throwaway654329 4y ago
This is part of a class division where we cannot practically exercise our rights which are clearly enumerated in public law. Only people with money or connections can even attempt to get many kinds of records. It’s wrong and government empl
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by throwaway654329 4y ago
The history in this blog post is excellently researched on the topic of NSA and NIST cryptographic sabotage. It presents some hard won truths that many are uncomfortable to discuss, let alone to actively resist. The author of the blog post
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by throwaway654329 4y ago
> Moral and rights talk, in a manner that treats them as unconditionally overriding principles, is the exclusive domain of the privileged. This claim seems backwards as a general rule. For one easy example: In jail support, prisoners, in
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by throwaway654329 4y ago
That’s nice to know, I didn’t realize that it wasn’t purely a matter of regional dialect. Thank you.
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by throwaway654329 4y ago
Apologies for being long winded, I don’t have enough time for shorter comments today. When you said “She should not be doing actions abroad that have implications for U.S. foreign policy.” I think that this sounds like an opinion and an uns
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by throwaway654329 4y ago
> I'm getting thoroughly fed up with analyses of geopolitics that begin and end with talks of rights and justifications. No doubt. It’s a challenging frame for a discourse. Part of the challenge might be related to the fact that it
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by throwaway654329 4y ago
Do you deny she has the right to do it? Or do I misunderstand your position? We both probably agree it’s politically risky, perhaps even stupid. I understood your original comment to be a denial of her right to freely travel there. From my
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by throwaway654329 4y ago
I agree that her history of activity really does play a part in being re-elected. I find the parent comment a bit shocking. It seems unreasonable to claim an elected U.S. representative is somehow not allowed to engage in foreign policy dis
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by throwaway654329 4y ago
Are you a native English speaker from the West coast of the United States? I would guess so? It is a subtle linguistic reference that lost on most of the rest of the world. Or as the Californian youth used to say: SIIIIIIIKE It turns out t
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by throwaway654329 4y ago
Oh wow, I completely made a mistake here. Ward is amazing, but I should have properly credited Wouter Castryck and Thomas Decru for this paper. Embarrassing. I wish I could edit my comment now, the shame will last forever.
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by throwaway654329 4y ago
This is an epic result. One of the authors, Ward Beullens, also recently broke the Rainbow signature scheme: “Breaking Rainbow Takes a Weekend on a Laptop” - https://eprint.iacr.org/2022/214 He is on a roll at breaking
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by throwaway654329 4y ago
You’re really understating the case. Your post is missing dozens to hundreds or even thousands of human rights violations. That’s also the power of propaganda, it is hard to know and then also present the full breadth of the picture even in
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by throwaway654329 4y ago
It explicitly links them. Here’s one of the academics from the papers I linked above explaining his “pet” theory: https://mobile.twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/1433476266... The papers explain more in detail,
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by throwaway654329 4y ago
It’s turtles all the way down. CPUs are “Enabled” and listed as a successful operation by NSA. Standards which are implemented in hardware and software are similarly backdoored. Protocols are designed to leak enough information to exploit v
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by throwaway654329 4y ago
Sure, of course. Wired: https://www.wired.com/2015/12/the-years-11-biggest-hacks-fro... IACR pre-print: https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/376 Later published in ACM: https://m-cacm.acm.
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by throwaway654329 4y ago
FIPS is a sign that it’s hard for other people (except the Chinese in the Juniper/OPM case) and possible, likely easy, for NSA. No American should mind, they obviously have your best interests in mind. Unless you filled out an SF-86 fo
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by throwaway654329 4y ago
This sounds like wishful thinking. FIPS cryptography is involved, often by legal requirement, in major parts of American data processing and in important parts of society. Banks and government data processors alike are often forced to use t
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by throwaway654329 4y ago
In art class in an American high school it was common to discuss and share digital images of famous nudes. I’m sure this system won’t interfere with that at all because of course the only nudity people might see or share is bad, right? In c
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by throwaway654329 4y ago
It depends on the assignment. In some areas, the CIA officers are openly recruiting such as in the “internet freedom” space. Often they are unofficially under cover as U.S. State Department but they don’t make much of an effort to hide it.
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by throwaway654329 4y ago
It’s a fact about lifetime obligations that come with holding a clearance and a fact related to learning national defense information under those cleared conditions. It’s a often referenced as a Faustian bargain for a reason: they own par
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by throwaway654329 4y ago
Not the literal first but certainly one of the most prominent.

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