(TIC mode: on) I think it’s obvious that:
- ESF is a front for the NSA - the acquisition which closed last year was really just about gaining control of a critical component of Internet infrastructure. - the delays getting 2.1 out the door were exclusively about getting some last-minute backdoor code installed. AYBAB2U, baby! (TIC mode: off) On Oct 9, 2013, at 5:56 PM, Thinker Rix <thinke...@rocketmail.com> wrote: > On 2013-10-09 18:20, Paul Kunicki wrote: >> I think that in light of the recent news of the NSA coercing various >> organizations to provide them with means to eavesdrop this message has merit >> and deserves response > > Exactly, Paul, you got my point! > >> although I doubt the NSA really needs cooperation from these guys. Does >> anyone else care to comment ? > > @your doubts about the NSA/FBI/<put the name of your government's > surveillance institution here> bothering with smaller companies such as > Electric Sheep Fencing LLC (formerly BSD perimeter) and their niche product > pfSense: > > Please take these 2 things into account: > > 1. Recently they forced the small encrypted-email-service "Lavabit" to comply > with them (hand out their SSL-masterkeys & install a "black-box" at their > premises). Lavabit did not agree - and they shut him down. > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavabit. Officially they wanted to force > Lavabit to just hand out Edward Snowden's emails (bad enough), but in reality > they wanted to gain access to all emails of Lavabit by receiving the SSL > masterkeys and by placing the blackbox at their premises, which rendered the > whole service useless. > > 2. Routers/Gateways/Firewalls are highly interesting for big brother. Read > e.g. this article "NSA Laughs at PCs, Prefers Hacking Routers and Switches" > (https://mailman.stanford.edu/pipermail/liberationtech/2013-September/011287.html) > > So, combining those 2 facts - the fact that the NSA/FBI/etc. prefer to > infiltrate routers with the fact that they very well bother knocking the > doors of small businesses with niche products, I guess my question is quite > legitimate! > > Greetings > Thinker Rix > _______________________________________________ > List mailing list > List@lists.pfsense.org > http://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list _______________________________________________ List mailing list List@lists.pfsense.org http://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list
