-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Scott Bennett wrote: > The article is at > > http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2007/12/20/nsa-0wnz-popular-firewalls > > (Beware of linewrap in URL above.) Because it's from Cryptome, the same folks > who think the NSA controls large banks of IP addresses in places like Red > China, perhaps the article should be taken with a hefty grain of salt. (snip)
I've seen this URL floating around in cyberspace, particularly among cipherpunks and hackers. IMO, it's primarily a threat for those who lack common sense - and all the technology or services in the world couldn't protect such people. I'm sorry, but if I'm going to use encryption, digisigs, etc., I want the cryptosystem engine to be on my machine, if at all possible. The less trust I can place in "black boxes" (whether running on third-party servers, or in the form of closed-source/proprietary software running on my machine), the better. (This, BTW, is why I like so many of the basic concepts of Tor - it distributes the total trust for providing a high degree of anonymity among multiple parties.) My US$0.02. - -- F. Fox: A+, Network+, Security+ Owner of Tor node "kitsune" http://fenrisfox.livejournal.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHcFkWbgkxCAzYBCMRCKKqAJ4vmpS3Ynl5dALUyzABdAfSvKXFlwCdHQlQ opuiHk49C4+0UHV4ro1VmcE= =6jrO -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
