Posted on 02/07/2013 5:15:42 AM PST by acw011
Meet the groundbreaking new encryption app set to revolutionize privacy and freak out the feds. It’s a game-changer that will almost certainly make life easier and safer for journalists, dissidents, diplomats, and companies trying to evade state surveillance or corporate espionage. Governments pushing for more snooping powers, however, will not be pleased.
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Laughable. Allowing text to “burn” after say 7 minutes for both user and receiver devices when FEDZILLA could capture the message in real-time in addition to knowing everything else about you...including your life history and whereabouts is...laughable.
Music to read this thread by...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TR3Vdo5etCQ
Just an opinion, but I suspect the Nameless Sameless Aimless will figure out a way to break it in a week, maybe two.
Does this mean the perv teacher can now send “compromising” pictures of him/her-self to students and they go away after seven minutes?
That is creepy, but I do find the whole double standard about electronic vs “old school” communication fascinating. We can say anything in a hallway or typed up and then delete it, but if it’s eMail, the government REQUIRES a company to save it. That is so orwellian as to destroy all of my faith in the current system.
Maybe that is why I am such a doom and gloomer. I WANT it to crash. Hmmm. I’ll have to think about that.
Any encrypted coms between conservative individuals or organizations is going to draw plenty of fed attention. If they can’t decipher the messages they’ll try another angle of snooping. Or come up with a warrant based on the testimony of a “confidential informant” to raid locations and grab the computers.
Just an opinion, but I suspect the Nameless Sameless Aimless will figure out a way to break it in a week, maybe two.
Well, the cool thing is that people could start sending private info to each other without worrying about it hitting the web, etc. The 16 year old girl that sends compromising photos to her 16 year old boyfriend’s phone would not have to worry about becoming the next big headline on Drudge.
Not that I approve of that sort of activity, but the totally public nature of such mistakes also offends me. Kids don’t think about that stuff and the ruined lives (and some suicides) are not justifiable consequences of such acts.
ping to video in #6
Thanks. I’ve seen that video. It’s priceless.
I confess that about ten years ago I was typing something personal and said to my wife, “Well, anyone tracking me can add that to their list of specific and mundane facts about me. Eventually they could put together a huge profile that would actually be pretty accurate. But the government is the only agency that would be that diligent. And there is nothing of significance that I post on Facebook that I don’t care if the whole world knows and stores.
Do you think they (or the Food and Beverage Institute) care what most people say enough to bother?
Sure about that?
Imagine paid FEDZILLA employees/assets (pick a number...any number) who are assigned to physically/electronically follow you, hack you, drone you in conjunction with others who are assigned to your friends/family as the threat assessment requires.
Only two schemes have ever truly unnerved the NSA.
One was an encryption scheme that was able to seamlessly and invisibly encrypt data into routine high volume business email traffic. Say one ordinary message out of ten million such messages sent internationally would read like a normal, boring document, but had data woven into its text.
An ordinary piece of hay in a haystack.
The other scheme was an “assassination pool”, in which anonymous individuals would be issued a password, then would place bets on when, say, a political leader would die. And the guess closest to the actual time would win the pool, less a service charge.
Typical users would place improbable bets solely to increase the pool for a hated politician. Then a potential assassin would place his bet near the time when he planned to kill the politician. All bets are of the same size, and when they were made kept a secret.
The guy who invented this latter idea was eventually arrested on unrelated charges and given the maximum possible sentence for them.
Should help the bad guys too, I imagine.
I have this mental image of an office cubicle somewhere deep within a nameless federal agency wherein works a guy who’s intercepting emails, and his walls are literally papered with revealing images of America’s females.
There must be tens of thousands of ‘em that get sent every, single day.
Let’s hope not...
Nonsense. Any data that is sent via proxy to another device is subject to capture and subsequent decoding.
When you consider how many different messages can be sent using only 20 or 25 letters, the odds of determining which is the correct interpretation are tremendous. It wouldn’t be as easy as we think.
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