I meant to link to http://www.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~accorsi/papers/imf09.pdf beside "immutable audit".
On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 3:16 PM, Jae Kwon <[email protected]> wrote: > There is debate about whether the NSA's PRISM program is related to > Palantir's products. > > > http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/06/23/1218189/-HBGary-Palantir-Prism-Facebook-The-Industrial-Surveillance-Complex > > Whether they are related or not, it seems that the government's claims of > transparency and audibility of the NSA's PRISM program is related (perhaps > directly) to the claims of Palantir's. Search for "immutable auditing" > below: > > > http://www.palantir.com/wp-content/static/pg-analysis-blog/2009/07/Privacy-and-Civil-Liberties-are-in-Palantirs-DNA.pdf > > It seems that even professor Lessig has bought into their marketing. > > http://lessig.tumblr.com/post/54268127504/on-the-freedom-to-speak > > (Palantir's product is the kind of thing that prof Lessig had always > wanted, as you can read in his book "Code: and Other Laws of Cyberspce". In > trying to strike a "balance" between copyright and privacy, prof Lessig > proposes solutions that fail to prevent blanket government surveillance.) > > We need to scrutinize these technically incredible claims. I wager that > for any given system that touts immutable audibility, there is a way to > hack around it. As long as the NSA can tap the wires and record information > in vast databases for cold storage, we are absolutely in risk. > > Technical/legal concepts that need to be scrutinized: > > * immutable audit log (see http://www.std.com/~cme/non-repudiation.htm) > * non-repudiation > * chain of custody > > - JaeKwon >
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