How to Protect Yourself from NSA Attacks on 1024-bit DH

Re:How to Protect Yourself from NSA Attacks on 1024-bit DH by jonnybgood on Friday October 16, 2015 @04:12PM (#10401723)

> they serve at our pleasure

No it actually doesn't and shouldn't. It would create a tyranny of the majority.

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Re:How to Protect Yourself from NSA Attacks on 1024-bit DH by ironsides on Friday October 16, 2015 @05:16PM (#10402058)

That my friend is called Democracy. When a majority rules..

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Re:How to Protect Yourself from NSA Attacks on 1024-bit DH by jMyles on Saturday October 17, 2015 @11:21AM (#10404638)

And that's why the United States was designed precisely to avoid becoming a democracy and instead be a republic.

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Re:How to Protect Yourself from NSA Attacks on 1024-bit DH by ionised on Monday October 19, 2015 @06:03AM (#10412000)

And look how that's turned out.

It took less than 200 years for it to devolve into a full-blown plutocracy.

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Re:How to Protect Yourself from NSA Attacks on 1024-bit DH by Nadya on Friday October 16, 2015 @04:16PM (#10401745)

Would you rather have tyranny left to the hands of a few?

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