----- Forwarded message from ianG <i...@iang.org> ----- Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2013 13:17:22 +0300 From: ianG <i...@iang.org> To: cryptogra...@randombit.net Subject: Re: [cryptography] [liberationtech] Heml.is - "The Beautiful & Secure Messenger" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.8; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130620 Thunderbird/17.0.7
On 13/07/13 09:43 AM, Noon Silk wrote: > So what should everyone do? Risk analysis. Which starts with your business model. What you do is go talk to your customers and figure out what happens to them. Formally, you would figure out the frequency of these events, and multiply them by the damages. Order them that way. Concentrate on the top one first, munch your way down the list. If you do this, in ordinary business, you will find that the NSA isn't even on the list, unless for some reason you targetted some space that they also targetted [0]. <advert> E.g, in my current business I'm dealing with savings for v. poor women in Africa. The threats that are hitting them are shakedowns by police, government, scammers, banks, merchants, each other, family, and self, not necessarily in the order we westerners expect. Sometimes with violence. So those are the things I'm building the system to protect against, which of course takes some cryptography to preserve and lock down assets rather than hide them, mixed with a lot of other things... your classic old 1990s CIA models aren't going to help a lot here. </> iang [0] jihadist websites, CAs and chat systems for Americans spring to mind. _______________________________________________ cryptography mailing list cryptogra...@randombit.net http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://ativel.com http://postbiota.org AC894EC5: 38A5 5F46 A4FF 59B8 336B 47EE F46E 3489 AC89 4EC5 -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
