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You're forgetting that you're talking nation states, here. Breaking encryption is in fact the role of the people you are giving access. Sovereign delivery makes sense for _nations_.
You can use and abuse encrypted one time pads and multiple countries to guarantee it’s not retrievable.
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If the US government and corporate executives had even half this level of shame, we'd have nobody left in those positions!
"suicide" in these circumstances is usually something else altogether. Even in cases it is executed by themselves, shame won't be the primary motivation.
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If the US government and corporate executives had even half this level of shame, we'd have nobody left in those positions!
"suicide" in these circumstances is usually something else altogether. Even in cases it is executed by themselves, shame won't be the primary motivation.
In my twenties I worked for a "company" in Mexico that was the official QNX ditribuitor for Mexico and LatAm. I guess the only reason was that Mexico City's Metro used QNX, and every year they bought a new license, I don't know why. We also did a couple of sales in Colombia I think, but was a complete shit show. We really just sent them the software by mail, and they had all sorts of issues getting it out of customs.…
https://phrack.org/issues/72/7_md#article
The timing as well is very suspicious and I think that there can be a lot of discussion about this
Right now, I am wondering about the name most tbh which might seem silly but "APT down - The North Korean files"
It seems that APT means in this case advanced persistent threat but I am not sure what they mean by Apt Down, like the fact that it got shut down by their journalism or-? I am sorry if this may seem naive and on a serious note this raises so many questions...
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Is encryption, almost any form, really reliable protection for a countries' government entire data? I mean, this is _the_ ultimate playground for "state level actors" -- if someday there's a hole and it turns out it takes only 20 years to decrypt the data with a country-sized supercomputer, you can bet _this_ is what multiple alien countries will try to decrypt first.
You're assuming that this needs to protect... > ... a countries' government entire data? But the bulk of the data is "boring": important to individuals, but not state security ("sorry Jiyeong, the computer doesn't know if you are a government employee. Apologies if you have rent to make this month!") There likely exists data where the risk calculation ends up differently, so that you wouldn't store it in this system.…
That's just from the top of my head. Exploiting such a trove of data doesn't sound complicated.
https://phrack.org/issues/72/7_md#article
Woah, read the timeline at the top of this. The fire happened the very day the government ordered onsite inspection was supposed to start due to Chinese/NK hacking.
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This is the first time I see this site, who/what is phrack? A hacker group?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrack
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How’s that? Using encryption, which is known to have backdoors and is vulnerable to nation state cracking?
> Using encryption, which is known to have backdoors and is vulnerable to nation state cracking? WTF are you talking about? There are absolutely zero backdoors of any kind known to be in any standard open source encryption systems, and symmetric cryptography 256-bits or more is not subject to cracking by anyone or anything, not even if general purpose quantum computers are doable and prove scalable. Shor's algorithm…
My (rudimentary, layman) understanding is that encryption is almost like a last line of defense and should never be assumed to be unbreakable. You sound both very knowledgeable on the topic, and very confident in the safety of modern encryption. I’m thinking maybe my understanding is obsolete!