-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I, for one, think that security of any sort is a great improvement.
There are plenty of reasons to be suspicious when handing data over to the government, but you might as well be guaranteed your privacy/security *while* doing it. William On 11/18/2014 02:23 PM, Eric Mill wrote: >> I meant USGOV protects USGOV. (Although not USGOV employees per >> se...) Cybersecurity wise USGOV probably doesn't/hardly need >> HTTPS, depending on the abilities of adversaries. > > Of course. US govt using https in their stupid propaganda websites > is irrelant. What is weird is that some US govt employee bothered > to advertise it here. Is he clueless? Was he trolling? > > > I wasn't trolling. I've been a member of this list, and paying > close attention to the field, since well before I joined the US > government (which happened back in May). > > Before this, I worked for 5 years at a relatively adversarial > non-profit group focused on government transparency, called the > Sunlight Foundation. > > I also did personal work on furthering encryption and drawing > attention to government surveillance: > > https://konklone.com/post/switch-to-https-now-for-free > https://konklone.com/post/the-door-to-the-fisa-court > https://twitter.com/fisacourt > > I still work on them, and stuff like it, in my personal capacity. > I'm on the record in all kinds of places, in my personal capacity, > supporting what Edward Snowden did and pushing for technical > changes and policy reform to curtail surveillance. > > I completely expect (and find welcome and appropriate) high levels > of skepticism for anything the US government does. All I can tell > you is where I'm coming from, and the actions my team is taking. > > In my government capacity, when https://letsencrypt.org is > operational next year, I hope to get as many .gov domains to use > their certificates as I can. > > -- Eric > > > > -- konklone.com <https://konklone.com> | @konklone > <https://twitter.com/konklone> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJUa7BhAAoJEFdZT8v9QYjyOyAH/3hsKBFs+INnAH0ahWm/Z7Yb Wd0cjlcLPE9eHHDZv4WXJgn3NVGisHSqqRnq7xJbIU8BIZXHp9euy1MUMPLVknoZ aksxZiNwLs9G94EjjcJQ8qi/0AjPZyHKrIKVd74bNsouODf0YzdTX48TLDzbLFd6 UyCmFKTjxK7Rp2mF84rvnaMjan0XU2sSxUeqpRCbzOgquh/CGHOQSQDuN6P+Qyce 8g9XQgZmeDO2dhTUiqw3zfGC1Kv45wIUbwhwVSnvF4nu1jA82GoooJpgDyzy4o7U kG6OKQQATfSLLLuc2SC0tJsGExz8chDa/PJChTy93UTRTy5KztzmC+M65yGyXr8= =T+wb -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
