Secret contract tied NSA and security industry pioneer

Post by enraged_camel » Sat, Dec 21, 2013, 12:46 AM UTC

ye wrote: post #52

dpratt wrote: post #20

I wonder if any of the executives involved with this deal will have a moment of clarity and make a public statement - "I was directly told by representatives of the U.S. Government that if we did not take this deal there would be direct and material consequences for both my company and myself. Here is the names of the people I met with, here is a log of the meetings. If I am jailed or in some other fashion publicly d…

Think of it from the executives perspective: Option A: keep mouth shut, make a shit ton of money Option B: become a martyr, face prison time People like Snowden are rare.

Post by x0x0 » Sat, Dec 21, 2013, 12:56 AM UTC

VladRussian2 wrote: post #34

wil421 wrote: post #10

I use one of these tokens for work. Spying is one thing but destroying encryption is another evil thing to do. If the NSA has introduced bugs in crypto then who's to say someone else can exploit the same crypto.

i wonder if Snowden has any detailed info on the NSA indroduced/forced backdoors (he obviously was aware about their existence in general like pretty much everybody in the world who isn't a tptacek's religious follower) and this or something like this is what keeps him alive - ie. NSA is afraid of dead man switch while other side(s) hopes that Snowden will reveal more and specifically useful for actual hacking info w…

Post by InclinedPlane » Sat, Dec 21, 2013, 1:01 AM UTC

MisterWebz wrote: post #91

InclinedPlane wrote: post #78

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I disagree with many of tptacek's opinions but honestly he's one of the reasons this site is great. He is capable of arguing with people with strongly opposing views with civility, which is something that is entirely too rare these days. He's also capable of admitting when he's wrong and being gracious when proven right. Also entirely too rare these days. I'd rather have a thousand tptaceks on this site than zero.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6944628 > Jesus, what a tool you are. How very civil and gracious.

Post by pessimizer » Sat, Dec 21, 2013, 1:03 AM UTC

lawnchair_larry wrote: post #142

icelancer wrote: post #140

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Pretty much. Not only that, but he's incredibly influential, so to see him get knocked down a peg does a lot of good.

This is a bit much and was not at all the motivation behind my comment.

Post by ye » Sat, Dec 21, 2013, 1:11 AM UTC

enraged_camel wrote: post #151

ye wrote: post #52

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Think of it from the executives perspective: Option A: keep mouth shut, make a shit ton of money Option B: become a martyr, face prison time People like Snowden are rare.

>>People like Snowden are rare. In all honesty, Snowden is a 30 year old single dude, and as far as I know, he doesn't have kids. Do you think he would have done what he did if he had a family to look after? In my opinion a person's first responsibility is to their family. So yeah, if you're married (like these executives probably are) and you're facing the choice between option A and option B, you should absolutely…