Re:How to Protect Yourself from NSA Attacks on 1024-bit DH
by leepowers on Friday October 16, 2015 @04:00PM
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Protecting yourself against the NSA is a good proxy for protecting yourself against other bad actors. The NSA has thousands of employees, a multi-billion dollar budget, and works 24 hours to crack, hack or otherwise gain unauthorized access to computer systems. So, if I can defend myself against the NSA, I've probably inoculated myself against other attackers using similar attack vectors.
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Re:How to Protect Yourself from NSA Attacks on 1024-bit DH
by jokoon on Saturday October 17, 2015 @07:07AM
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I highly doubt that, and I don't think it's a good logic. You cannot compare the power, tools and jurisdiction the NSA has and compare that to other bad actors. The NSA literally has the right to spy on you, but it will get very difficult for somebody else to do something comparable if they don't have the same resources AND the same intentions.
Re:How to Protect Yourself from NSA Attacks on 1024-bit DH
by pdkl95 on Sunday October 18, 2015 @11:56AM
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> The NSA literally has the right to spy on you
Wow. Seriously, why would you think they had that right?
If the link in their HN profile is to be believed, the person you are replying to is almost certainly a US citizen. The NSA is not authorized for domestic surveillance, as General Alexander admitted when he perjured himself in front of Congress[1]. It's in their charter, it's in the 4th Amendment and a couple hundred years of legal precedent. We even addressed these limitations in the Church Committee.
So I really don't understand why you would believe they had the right to spy on domestic targets. Besides, the game played by the FVEY members is letting GCHQ do the spying on US targets, not the NSA.