lol, Ft. Meade has maxed out the amount of power that they can pull in from the local utilities... that is a lot of horsepower to throw at encryption... ---- Julian
On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 2:54 PM, Winterlight <[email protected]>wrote: > Last weekend I was watching a American Greed on CNBC. It was about a > hacker with a CS degree and a IT job, in the bay area who was stealing > credit card numbers. The FBI eventually caught him but what was > interesting was when he was interviewed in prison he said the FBI broke in > through his front door and arrested him. He thought he had, in his words, > three bricks for computers, because they were encrypted. He thought that > all the FBI had gotten was three useless bricks. Apparently, the FBI > encryption lab was able to decrypt the computers. He never said what kind > of encryption, but a hacker with a undergraduate degree in CS would know > how to use strong encryption. I did not think such a thing was possible > > > At 11:10 AM 11/30/2011, you wrote: > >> http://www.theregister.co.uk/**2011/11/30/smartphone_spying_**app/<http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/11/30/smartphone_spying_app/> >> >> Remember Apple's Geographic issue? Nothing in comparison to this.. text, >> geographic locations, web histories, etc. all being sent back and stored >> for those on Android. >> Thought you data was private? SORRY! >> > >
