http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-24429332 NSA using old versions of Firefox to infect PCs in order to identify TOR users. NSA unable to break TOR itself. GO TOR developer U.S. Navy (who needed a secure way to share messages with submarines).
On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 8:23 AM, John Gilmore <[email protected]> wrote: > The WIRED piece Mike Schwab provided a link to recounts things that > are commonplaces within the crypto community; but it is a useful brief > conspectus for others. > > Worth remembering is that these situations are always layered. > Duiring the Korean War it was usual for the Chinese to plant two or > more sets of booby traps in positions they abandoned. The first were > easy to find, but not flagrantly so. The second were not. The notion > was that finding the first set would make the [chiefly American] UN > Forces less careful, more likely to miss the second. > > Or again, as the late Malcolm Muggeridge once observed, malignly, "The > Americans' CIA is an amateurish sort of organization, but it will > provide excellent cover for a professional one if they ever decide to > establish it". > > John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
