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NSA uses Java. Great to know. Apparently the professionals at the NSA are not swayed by fashion.
That's a ridiculous defense: they were obviously swayed by fashion at some point. It just happened several years ago.
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Bruce Schneier explains why that is not a back door. http://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram-9909.html#NSAKeyinMicros... So other than this, are there any other NSA "backdoors in everything from crypto systems, operating systems, to even backdoors themselves"?
Oh, the great Bruce Schneier says so, so therefore it must be. How do you know he's not a shill for Microsoft and the NSA? Hmm? The great thing about backdoors is, when they get discovered they have perfect plausible deniability. "Oh that key named NSAKEY isn't for the NSA it's for...uh...this other agency. Yeah that's it! It's not even a key. Right Bruce? Right?!"
The great thing about people accusing others of subterfuge is how it may never reach a suitable end.
How do we know Zed Shaw is not a shill for those opposing those for whom Bruce Schneier is a shill?? What to do!
Some time ago I met some people from the .gov cyber security, NSA and other offices. The head of the .gov office on cyber security was really nice and invited me to go to dinner with them. The guy from the NSA was hands down the biggest evil piece of shit I have ever experienced in my life. The way he talked, what he said, and the fact that he was given free reign to commit crimes in his training, which he openly bra…
I'm not trying to defend this guy, certainly it's a big problem if he did what he said, but you can't fix something when you paint the whole fucking thing with a brush you picked up looking at one of the uglier parts.
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That's a ridiculous defense: they were obviously swayed by fashion at some point. It just happened several years ago.
You appear to tilting at windmills of your own making. What I find ridiculous. Is your claim of having had a window into the operational decisions of NSA back when they opted for Java.
If they had chosen a newer language you didn't approve of, you would have glibly dismissed their engineering decision as "being swayed by fashion."
Since they chose Java, though, the engineers are being "professional" and anyone saying that their decision was swayed by fashion is being "ridiculous," claiming to have a "window into the operational decisions of NSA."
A little bias here perhaps?
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Bruce Schneier explains why that is not a back door. http://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram-9909.html#NSAKeyinMicros... So other than this, are there any other NSA "backdoors in everything from crypto systems, operating systems, to even backdoors themselves"?
Oh, the great Bruce Schneier says so, so therefore it must be. How do you know he's not a shill for Microsoft and the NSA? Hmm? The great thing about backdoors is, when they get discovered they have perfect plausible deniability. "Oh that key named NSAKEY isn't for the NSA it's for...uh...this other agency. Yeah that's it! It's not even a key. Right Bruce? Right?!"
It would be most plausible to have direct access to the build infrastructure, which in turn would give access to ... without the hoops of going through Oracle and IBM or whatever corporate projects.
And if you read the spiegel article (which has to do) with Ben's past-present, it is clear, that the USA is on the "offensive". The surest way to discredit any anonymity provider for whistle-blowers is to discredit the providers. Which has just happened in the last few days (note, that the contents of the 7z itself was already past 0-day, and therefore valueless, as a USA Official noted in the article).
Some time ago I met some people from the .gov cyber security, NSA and other offices. The head of the .gov office on cyber security was really nice and invited me to go to dinner with them. The guy from the NSA was hands down the biggest evil piece of shit I have ever experienced in my life. The way he talked, what he said, and the fact that he was given free reign to commit crimes in his training, which he openly bra…