Bruce Perens: > On 12/04/2013 01:31 PM, Jacob Appelbaum wrote: >> Could you please cite a single case where the illegal NSA spying programs >> have >> done that? > I don't know of any that you don't know of. I also don't believe they can > ever > tell us the full story, whether it's good or bad, because it would reveal > operations and in some cases personnel.
So basically, you were just blowing smoke? OK! >> I walked into Iraq in 2005 (as a journalist) and talked to people who had >> their entire family murdered by our war machine. > I never supported the Iraq war and it happened because so many were fooled by > the Bush Administration. I strongly doubt that the Bush Administration did > this > because they had bad SIGINT. It happened because of similar arguments to those that you're making here, actually. >> We need to secure the DNS against tampering (DNSSEC) > Um. This has been in process for 14 years without success? And now you want > _more_ encrypted protocols? Good luck with a Man-On-The-Side attack on .se. domains that are properly configured. While DNSSEC has a lot of problems, it is an example of how to change the game, even if it is slow going. We've learned a lot too. >> Currently, we lack both political and technical solutions to mass >> surveillance. > If there is any evidence that NSA is the slightest bit concerned about this, > I've not seen it. I would guess that their technical capability is up to the > task. > Huh? Did you totally miss my point, or what? > Political solutions have a chance of being effective. > What political solution do you envision exactly? I'm really curious to hear how you're going to defend your computer or from attackers with nation state capabilities (or less) with a political solution. It has so far failed for all of the nations subverted by the NSA surveillance. Ask Chancellor Merkel how that process worked out for her cell phone, eh? http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/merkel-calls-obama-over-suspicions-us-tapped-her-mobile-phone-a-929642.html Guess what she did after she tried the political solution? I believe she acquired some better hardware with meaningful crypto! All the best, Jacob _______________________________________________ perpass mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/perpass
