maartena
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join:2002-05-10
Orange, CA
 ·RoadRunner Cable
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Re: Encrypt everything
said by keyboard5684  :Well, maybe, but think of it this way. Can the government come to your house and put some clips on your line and listen to your phone calls or better yet at the co? Not without a warrant however they do (not officially) do that once it hits the data/voice transport after your CO. A warrant? You never heard of the Patriot Act, did you? 
Local police needs a warrant. The government however, they don't need no stinking warrant. 
Can the NSA break your encryption, probably. Yes, I know the whole theoretical amount of time it takes someone to crack 128 bit encryption but if the government knows how are they going to tell you? We have long moved past 128 bit encryption. My company uses 1024 bit encryption, which requires a few million computers to run for a year or two to crack the code.
Terrorists use encryption to send their important messages, and they probably change RSA key just about every month or so, or right before any important communications.
Really you cannot stop the government from listening in. You can stop them from prosecuting you for doing something wrong unless they had a warrant from the beginning. Excactly. With the current Patriot Act, the NSA doesn't even need a warrant. If they think there is a slight possibility that you could have something to do with something slightly related to terrorism, even if you don't know it yourself (like donating to an orphanage in Syria, which in turn has given money to terrorists in the past - and now you are "connected"), and the NSA can just listen into your phone, cell phone, and internet connections, "just in case".
Also, I think the technology already has you beat. Maybe you can get around it and I can but most people cannot. This means the major part of the internet traffic will be tracked, then the info (surfing habits, etc) will be sold. Being a sysadmin, I can tell you that it is SO easy to put an e-mail tap on someone without the person knowing it and without even anyone else knowing about it but you. Your colleague sysadmin may be able to find it if they know where they are looking, but if you removed the tap before they look, no one will ever know.
I have the dignity and the respect for my employment to not do so, unless specifically asked by management (which I have been in the past), but there are sysadmins out there that do not have ethical standards. Word of the wise: Do not piss off your sysadmin. |
cho0b
join:2006-09-26
united state
| said by maartena :Terrorists use encryption to send their important messages, and they probably change RSA key just about every month or so, or right before any important communications. LOL, What terrorists? Is it the Al-Qaedas?! Or are you talking about the American government? I get the two confused so much.. |
