Re: (N)ever (S)ay (A)nything - Any ideas ??

From: David Eather (eather_at_tpg.com.au)
Date: 06/28/05 

Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:04:20 +1000
To: "Douglas A. Gwyn" <DAGwyn@null.net>

Douglas A. Gwyn wrote:
> Galathas wrote:
>
>> what are Your ideas about NSA development nowadays ?? Are they able
>> just now to break any cipher text ?? :-) What are their possibilities
>> today ??
>
>
> Roughly half the "modern" systems can be broken under
> favorable circumstances. Note also that there are
> methods of system cracking other than "pure" analysis.
>
>> And what are your suggestions & tips to strike them ( and
>> other goverment based "inet personal data mining & logging & analyzing"
>> authorities ) down, do not allow them to read and analyze our private
>> emails, files that we are sending throught inet or other valuable
>> personal data...??
>
>
> If you're not actively conspiring to cause harm to
> others, you don't have to worry about the NSA.

I would disagree with that. I know of one case of harassment of US and
foreign nationals (researchers) to protect the sale of a *patent* by a
US company (circa 1980's).

Putting aside the question of who did the "dirty work" (which is in any
case unknown), the next interesting question becomes who intercepted the
communications and decided that this was a matter of interest.

   You
> might want to worry more about identity theft by
> criminals. It's already a serious problem and is
> likely to get much worse. To avoid it, you may have
> to stop using the Internet altogether and stop
> conducting business by telephone, especially radio
> devices (which is where everything is headed).

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