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How Snowden's Email Provider Tried To Foil The FBI Using Tiny Font
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#42Clever. We did something similar for a friend getting married. Instead of giving his present directly we created a text file encrypted with his public pgp key. We printed out the ascii-armored cryptotext and handed it over. He had lots of fun typing it back into his computer.
I'm sure FBI didn't have as much fun.
Anyway, as he decided to give the SSL key, pulling this kind of prank seems bit childish. On the other hand, he must have been under a heavy pressure, so can't blame the guy for not thinking 100% straight.
Sad, that people are sidetracked to talking about the font size instead of warrantless wiretapping.
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#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
In all seriousness, is it possible to design a system where it is simply impossible to hand over data to a third party?
I believe Julian Assange worked on a system that would make it impossible for an external entity to determine if there is any useful information on a data partition. Basically you would have a hard drive full of random numbers and it would be unfeasible to determine if there is any actual information on it, without the right keys and tools.
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#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
I believe Julian Assange worked on a system that would make it impossible for an external entity to determine if there is any useful information on a data partition. Basically you would have a hard drive full of random numbers and it would be unfeasible to determine if there is any actual information on it, without the right keys and tools.
I have never heard Assange's name in connection with this, but that's what Truecrypt purports to do: http://www.truecrypt.org/hiddenvolume
He did. It was a project called rubberhose.
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#45How can you not love this guy? Please donate to his defense fund: http://tinyurl.com/m65n4ko http://lavabit.com/ Lavabit Legal Defense Fund 10387 Main Street, Suite 205 Fairfax, VA 22030 (703) 291-1999
Why conceal the donate link behind a link shortener? And on yet another creepy surveillance related story. I can't be the only one that sees the irony here.
TinyURL allows previewing of links by adding 'preview' as a subdomain, like so: http://preview.tinyurl.com/m65n4ko
Now we can see where your link really takes us, to a PayPal donate page: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s- xclick&hosted_button_id=7BCR4A5W9PNN4
This way, you can still have your (unnecessary) click tracking while still giving the reader choice. I think you used a link shortener only to track clicks, since there is no 140 character limit here on HN. Ask yourself if this practice is really necessary.
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#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
I believe Julian Assange worked on a system that would make it impossible for an external entity to determine if there is any useful information on a data partition. Basically you would have a hard drive full of random numbers and it would be unfeasible to determine if there is any actual information on it, without the right keys and tools.
I have never heard Assange's name in connection with this, but that's what Truecrypt purports to do: http://www.truecrypt.org/hiddenvolume
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#47Wouldn't the FBI have the technical capability to use optical character recognition to digitise the keys to actual text? Or maybe it's too small to be legible to a high DPI scanner? I really admire Lavabit here, they're not dealing with your average Joe, they're dealing with the American Government and that costs money. Everyone has the chance to help potentially make history by supporting Lavabit and donate to its l…
A simple character flip in a single letter would make the key unusable. ocr is fairly good, but it's not uncommon that you get a handful of errors. That's usually fine if the result is meant for humans, but here, 99.9% correct is not enough, you need 100% correctness.
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#48How can you not love this guy? Please donate to his defense fund: http://tinyurl.com/m65n4ko http://lavabit.com/ Lavabit Legal Defense Fund 10387 Main Street, Suite 205 Fairfax, VA 22030 (703) 291-1999
Because, if this article is correct[0], his refusal to obey a court order is the only reason the FBI made him hand over private keys. The story is the FBI asked for Snowden's emails and correspondence. Lavabit said they would not hand over the information(but admitted they had the technical capability ... it was server side encryption after all). Only after that refusal did the FBI start taking more drastic action. T…
Just because the FBI did not get the specific information they wanted as quickly as they would have liked should not entitle them to gather information on people not included in the original warrant... people who the FBI had no probably cause and no justification for grabbing their data.
I just don't understand how that makes sense. "You wouldn't give us Snowden's info so now we get everyone's info!" Why can't the FBI or the court further compel Lavabit to give up just the information they were authorized to get?
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#49Small moves like that makes me proud to be on the internet at this day and age of crisis. I hope I can tell my children or grand children that I actually cared and that I made a small difference, even if it's only the smallest of all. I hope it will stay the way it is. Probably not, seeing how the public is ignoring and/or is not caring about the issue at all.
> I hope I can tell my children or grand children that I actually cared and that I made a small difference, even if it's only the smallest of all.
What did you do?
Re: How Snowden's Email Provider Tried To Foil The FBI Using Tiny Font
#50How can you not love this guy? Please donate to his defense fund: http://tinyurl.com/m65n4ko http://lavabit.com/ Lavabit Legal Defense Fund 10387 Main Street, Suite 205 Fairfax, VA 22030 (703) 291-1999
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I wouldn't use Paypal anyway. They repeatedly stood out in the past for closing donation funds for non-profits for dubious reasons and other forms of being shitty. I don't trust them to use my money in the way I inteded it to be used.
Here you can donate by other means: https://rally.org/lavabit