[email protected] (John Gilmore) writes: > I want to add, with as much urgency as I can muster, that > high-security encryption must be used to provide this protection. No > encryption scheme endorsed by Five Eyes provides any protection > against them or indeed against similar Chinese groups. > > I, for one, judge that the intentions of the NSA are benign; but if it > ever was that is no longer the issue. The technology for breaking > these 'recommended' schemes is now so widely diffused that they > provide only the illusion and not the substance of security. > > Paranoia is almost always dysfunctional. In this area it is not. We > have all been far too naif for far too long.
it isn't just a single homogeneous entity. Spies Like Us http://www.investingdaily.com/17693/spies-like-us/ Private contractors like Booz Allen now reportedly garner 70 percent of the annual $80 billion intelligence budget and supply more than half of the available manpower. ... snip ... How Booz Allen Hamilton Swallowed Washington http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-06-23/visualizing-how-booz-allen-hamilton-swallowed-washington increasing privatizing of intelligence by for-profit companies focused on ever increasing quarterly profits. News is that spying on ex's is so common they even have name for it ... why wouldn't for-profit employees also be involved in industrial espionage? BAH case http://washingtontechnology.com/articles/2012/02/08/booz-allen-air-force-debarment.aspx note in the wake of this "Success of Failure" incident, congress put the agency on probation and not allowed to manage its own efforts ... but that may have just been ploy for further privatizng. http://www.govexec.com/excellence/management-matters/2007/04/the-success-of-failure/24107/ even some IBM connection, the head of IBM http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_V._Gerstner,_Jr. leaves and becomes chairman of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlyle_Group which then does private equity buyout of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booz_Allen_Hamilton slightly related http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#55 "NSA foils much internet encryption" http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#56 "NSA foils much internet encryption" -- virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
