Re: [liberationtech] Whatsapp, a Trojan horse for seekers of easy privacy?

2015-01-16 Thread Leif Ryge
On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 01:37:12PM -0800, Al Billings wrote: On Jan 16, 2015, at 12:18 PM, carlo von lynX l...@time.to.get.psyced.org wrote: Al, you may want to deviate the discussion towards the 10.000th debate about proprietary vs free software, but the topic here is the

Re: [liberationtech] Whatsapp, a Trojan horse for seekers of easy privacy?

2015-01-16 Thread Leif Ryge
On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 02:12:38PM -0800, Al Billings wrote: On Jan 16, 2015, at 2:07 PM, Leif Ryge l...@synthesize.us wrote: I did see two answers earlier, Iceland and Switzerland. There are many other countries besides those two where it also seems very unlikely that companies

Re: [liberationtech] Meet the 'cowboy' in charge of the NSA

2013-09-09 Thread Leif Ryge
On Mon, Sep 09, 2013 at 10:15:02AM -0400, liberationt...@lewman.us wrote: On Mon, 09 Sep 2013 11:23:30 +0200 Axel Simon axelsi...@axelsimon.net wrote: Am I the only one for whom the page is hidden behind an annoying sign up overlay? If you disable javascript for the site there is no

Re: [liberationtech] Random number generation being influenced - rumors

2013-09-06 Thread Leif Ryge
The NYT article doesn't explicitly say they've backdoored hardware RNGs, but it separately says they've backdoored hardware somehow and and are recovering keys somehow: By this year, the Sigint Enabling Project had found ways inside some of the encryption chips that scramble information for