How the CIA used Crypto AG encryption devices to spy on countries for decades

Post by ta999999171 » Tue, Feb 11, 2020, 9:45 PM UTC

ChrisCinelli wrote: post #183

einpoklum wrote: post #149

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> I think most of us would be fine with the NSA doing what they do if it was targeted You think wrong. That fact that there are opposing world states engaging in this nefarious, oppressive, terrible acts and they're not all aligned doesn't legitimize any of these states' activities. The NSA should essentially be shut down, or cut down to a small agency operating in public with a much more limited mandate. And no secr…

Just watch the "Mission Impossible" franchising. They are obviously dramatized stories but I would not be surprised that the world has been very closed to cease to exist as we know it and the only thing that prevented was that they did their job. Only few people know what they have done, no glory, no prizes, no recognition. What kind of people do that? Heros. Feel free to down vote me. I can only guess but I would no…

Post by ta999999171 » Tue, Feb 11, 2020, 9:48 PM UTC

sethherr wrote: post #172

Invictus0 wrote: post #143

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It's plausible to think that that message constitutes a warrant canary [0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrant_canary

Not mutually exclusive, it's possible the Momo and the time thieves and the NSA are working together - the UTC is NSA , is the combined message

Post by [deleted] » Tue, Feb 11, 2020, 9:54 PM UTC

ChrisCinelli wrote: post #183

einpoklum wrote: post #149

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I think most of us would be fine with the NSA doing what they do if it was targeted You think wrong. That fact that there are opposing world states engaging in this nefarious, oppressive, terrible acts and they're not all aligned doesn't legitimize any of these states' activities. The NSA should essentially be shut down, or cut down to a small agency operating in public with a much more limited mandate. And no secr…

Just watch the "Mission Impossible" franchising. They are obviously dramatized stories but I would not be surprised that the world has been very closed to cease to exist as we know it and the only thing that prevented was that they did their job. Only few people know what they have done, no glory, no prizes, no recognition. What kind of people do that? Heros. Feel free to down vote me. I can only guess but I would no…

Post by lawnchair_larry » Tue, Feb 11, 2020, 10:01 PM UTC

pstuart wrote: post #84

RcouF1uZ4gsC wrote: post #80

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From the TrueCrypt webpage: http://truecrypt.sourceforge.net/ > WARNING: Using TrueCrypt is not secure as it may contain unfixed security issues The fact that they use awkward wording that contains words whose first letters that start with NSA (not secure as) is pretty suggestive that you are right.

Wow. In a different timeline I'd dismiss that as tinfoil hat time, but in this one it seems spot on.

Post by lawnchair_larry » Tue, Feb 11, 2020, 10:10 PM UTC

edm0nd wrote: post #17

NamTaf wrote: post #2

Reading between the lines on this, it's plainly apparent why there's been repeated attacks on encrpytion by the US government. From this, through RSA's Dual_EC_DRBG, to the present day, it's obvious that the US highly values rigging the deck to aid their decryption, and that the current democratisation of encrpytion protocols is a threat to them. I mean, you only need to read their repeated admissions that without MI…

I'm pretty sure the US government is why the TrueCrypt devs stopped all work. They got hit with a national security letter (NSL) or heavily leaned on and pressured to stop making their product so awesome and un-breakable.