On 2013-11-08 04:23, Florian Weimer wrote:
* Eugen Leitl quotes:
The traffic shown in the slides below is now all encrypted and the
work the NSA/GCHQ staff did on understanding it, ruined.
Encryption is not a solution to the problem. The attack on Google
shows that NSA/GCHQ that companies in Western countries and their
employees are legitimate targets for covert operations by their
intelligence services (same for the BND attacks on 1&1 and other
German ISPs, we don't have to single out the Obama administration or
the British here).
I have from time to time received some very odd directives regarding
cryptography.
I assumed that this reflects the fact that every businessman has
unavoidably committed thousands of felonies "Show me the man, and I will
find you the crime"
Recent events would suggest that this analysis was correct.
