I'd love to see the exact reference if you can find it. On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 5:30 PM, Florian Weimer <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On 03/22/2015 04:47 AM, Florian Weimer wrote: > >> It's been reported that the U.S. State Department hands out laptops > >> with anonymization capability to dissidents in select regions. (I can > >> dig out the exact reference, I thnk I've read it in Lettre > >> International.) > > > Does reference give any more details about the anonymizing tech, or > > other software it includes? > > No, unfortunately not, it's not the focus of the article. If I > recall, it's only mentioned to illustrate the peripheral nature of > U.S. involvement. > > I just wonder how much planning went into this. If you do it in the > wrong way (especially if you supply everything, from the hardware to > the applications), you risk creating a pretty clear fingerprint for > which scalable detection isn't too hard to implement. On the other > hand, maybe the actual goal is to infiltrate these dissident groups > early own, to be prepared should their allegiances shift later. In > that case, the laptop supplier probably does not care that much about > immediate exposure, as long as some of the recipients go undetected by > the regime. > -- > Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations > of list guidelines will get you moderated: > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. > Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at > [email protected]. >
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