Posts by Martin Lindberg
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Hard News: Game Lorde, in reply to Robyn Gallagher,
Lana Del Ray was the last one the dads got excited over. She’s not a teen, but was playing to the same audience.
Yes, I can't imagine that having your mum and dad's friends as fans is what teen pop stars are looking for in terms of endorsement.
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Well, at least NZ gets to benefit(?). I'm assuming the GCSB is one of GCHQ's 2nd Party partners:
From the BULLRUN Briefing Sheet From GCHQ
At TOP SECRET STRAP1 COMINT AUSCANZUKUS EYES
The fact that GCHQ or its 2nd Party partners has some capability against the encryption used in a class or type of network communications technology. For example, VPNs, IPSec, TSL/SSL, HTTPS, SSH, encrypted chat, encrypted VoIP.
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OnPoint: BTW, the NZ Police can use…, in reply to Paul Campbell,
Scarier is “N.S.A. Foils Much Internet Encryption” – it’s hard to tell exactly what they’re saying there, but it seems to hint to me that SSL is toast.
There's a good summary of the latest news (including the NYT story you referenced) at Ars Technica:
NSA attains the Holy Grail of spying, decodes vast swaths of Internet traffic
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While it's already possible to securely encrypt email using public key encryption, as Keith is demonstrating, it's still a pain. The good thing about the revelations around NSA et al is that this has created a much greater public interest in security. So now there is a need for an easier way to secure communications.
Inventing geeks to the rescue:
Developers Scramble to Build NSA-Proof Email
In surveillance era, clever trick enhances secrecy of iPhone text messagesAlso, here's a cool stick-figure presentation of the background and implementation of AES. Good if you are interested in the mathematics behind cryptography (and let's face it - who isn't?)
A Stick Figure Guide to the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)
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OnPoint: BTW, the NZ Police can use…, in reply to Paul Campbell,
Now how do I choose an ISP who publishes their router source?
That may not matter if you have a Lenovo PC anyway.
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OnPoint: BTW, the NZ Police can use…, in reply to Paul Campbell,
Maybe the big fuss about Huawei equipment is not that they are Chinese made, but that they are too good and can’t be broken in to, and can’t be persuaded to add secret back doors, I can see why that might piss off our secret powers that be
Possibly, but let's not forget that it's not only the Americans that are keen on cyber spying. Ghostnet was only uncovered four years ago.
Its command and control infrastructure is based mainly in the People's Republic of China and has infiltrated high-value political, economic and media locations[3] in 103 countries. Computer systems belonging to embassies, foreign ministries and other government offices, and the Dalai Lama's Tibetan exile centers in India, London and New York City were compromised.
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OnPoint: BTW, the NZ Police can use…, in reply to Idiot Savant,
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Hard News: So long, and thanks for all…, in reply to Stephen Judd,
I read “geldings” as a reference to male supporters of the quote proposals, equally offensive but in a different way.
Or maybe he’s just referring to men who don’t use public funding to jack off.
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Hard News: So long, and thanks for all…, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
I can completely hear some of the locals calling women geldings
How does calling women geldings even make sense? A gelding is a castrated male horse.
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OnPoint: Ich bin ein Cyberpunk, in reply to Paul Campbell,
Cool Keith front page of /.
Now also front page of Ars Technica: New Zealand appears to have used NSA spy network to target Kim Dotcom.
