" Encryption meaningfully prevented a wiretap for the first time ever in *2012* (or so we're told, for non-intelligence domestic US wiretaps), and has only ever worked five times."
What are you referring to? Do you have a pointer to more information? I am very curious. -- Matt Johnson On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 10:13 PM, Eleanor Saitta <[email protected]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA256 > > On 2013.06.28 13.14, Jonathan Wilkes wrote: >> Just curious, Eleanor-- once you implement your "bullet-proof" >> privacy- preserving network, how do you plan to make the user >> experience at all tolerable without automated mirroring like what >> this developer has written and tested? > > That's going to depend on the system and the situation. With Briar, > we do things that are fairly similar, but we also make a point of > taking unlinkability seriously. Research code into social mirroring? > Awesome. Protocol design intended for deployment that ignores > unlinkability? Not awesome. > > More specifically, some of this is unrelated to Alireza's proposal -- > I'm using it to illustrate the kinds of shifts that we need to > undertake in our thinking here. It's not about *this* tool, it's > about every tool we build. To that end, I suppose I do owe them a bit > of an apology -- really, it's nothing personal about this tool (and > certainly not anything about them, although I hope that's obvious). > It's all of us and everything that needs to shift. > > Finally, I should note in passing, I'm not trying to make something > "bullet-proof". I care about security outcomes, not security > theories. What I want to see is our tools reaching the point where > we're actually playing the game, because right now, we're not even on > the road to the stadium. Encryption meaningfully prevented a wiretap > for the first time ever in *2012* (or so we're told, for > non-intelligence domestic US wiretaps), and has only ever worked five > times. This is pathetic and terrifying. Let's become an actual problem. > > E. > > - -- > Ideas are my favorite toys. > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (MingW32) > > iF4EAREIAAYFAlHObREACgkQQwkE2RkM0wrI1AD/aSD1R4PCjLVMxJGfY2s1CDLP > 0EOaFBGkh3daJdsJ6moA/0DHZM5CoIwHpUN/3O6cx7HdKSmE6VcqxTsnI6+f9kt+ > =v8og > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > -- > Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by > emailing moderator at [email protected] or changing your settings at > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at [email protected] or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
