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I'm not happy hearing the unqualified statement "we need secrecy" being banded around without any opposition.
How about replacing it with 'privacy'? We all need privacy and politicians are not an exception.
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From Julian Assange's old blog: http://cryptome.org/0002/ja-conspiracies.pdf http://web.archive.org/web/20071020051936/http://iq.org/#The... ---- Sun 31 Dec 2006 : The non linear effects of leaks on unjust systems of governance You may want to read The Road to Hanoi or Conspiracy as Governance ; an obscure motivational document, almost useless in light of its decontextualization and perhaps even then. But if you read…
Hmm... a corollary might be that startups (insecure due to their very nature) have a huge edge with regards to standard institutions, precisely because they don't have to deal with security problems. So, as they grow bigger, they become more inefficient and customers more unhappy (see: Paypal). I hope there are ways to mitigate this.
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I present a 4th scenario: These systems are on 'known good networks' staffed by people who have some of the most extensive vetting you can get. These are the folks who invented (or funded the development of) RBAC and the like. SELinux came out of NSA, for example. The tech exists, but it's a hastle to work with. If you've got fully-cleared, all-known-good actors, why bother? It's not like it's on the internet, or acc…
"Maybe they also put too much faith in the vetting process and external shell and less on protections within the chewy center." They put a lot of effort into screening staff, but they're also the most attractive target for well-funded adversaries (Russia, China, etc.). The only stuff I've ever seen come out of NSA and actually used by anyone in government that hasn't been crap has been hardware. SELinux, etc. are a s…
I feel like this hasn't been said enough in the debates surrounding the surveillance leaks.
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It would be interesting to consider a world that is truly without secrets, even of obscurity. It's possible we might get there. I think the way companies and so forth do their work could end up being adjusted to cope.
'The dead past'. Isaac Asimov, 1956.