* Adam Fields: > I find it hard to believe that even the most uninformed dissidents > would be using an untested, unaudited, _beta_, __foreign__ new service > for anything. Is there any reason to believe otherwise?
I wouldn't be surprised if there are plenty such tools in circulation which are used by various dissident groups. It's a cost-effective way to infiltrate them. The problem with such tools is that you can't really know how is listening in on the proxies. Even if the software itself contains no backdoors, the service as a whole might still be compromised. Even if the proxies are trustworthy, your usage of the tool can very likely be discovered by traffic analysis (and usage patterns as well, if you're unlucky, and increasingly so if the service has low latency). There is no technical solution to oppressive governments (or non-trustworthy ISPs, for that matter). After all, if you're anonymous and oppressed, you're still oppressed. -- Florian Weimer <[email protected]> BFK edv-consulting GmbH http://www.bfk.de/ Kriegsstraße 100 tel: +49-721-96201-1 D-76133 Karlsruhe fax: +49-721-96201-99 --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [email protected]
