tcit, le 19/07/2014 à 15:36
TL;DR : Not If Your Life Is On The Line
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CAFAI, le 19/07/2014 à 16:42
About a year ago John Young, the operator of the leaks site Cryptome, voiced serious concerns in a mailing list thread about the perception of security being conveyed by tools like Tor:

   Security is deception. Comsec a trap. Natsec the mother of secfuckers.16

Jacob Appelbaum, who by the way is intimately involved with the Tor project, responded:

   Whatever you’re smoking, I wish you’d share it with the group.

Appelbaum’s cavalier dismissal fails to appreciate the aforementioned countermeasures. What better way to harvest secrets from targets en masse than to undermine a ubiquitous technology that everyone thinks will keep them safe? For activists engaged in work that could get them executed, touting crypto as a universal remedy is akin to selling snake oil. John Young’s stance may seem excessive to promoters like Appelbaum but if Snowden’s revelations have taught us anything, it’s that the cynical view has been spot on
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