Re:More encryption means less privacy
by mike_hearn on Wednesday August 10, 2016 @10:24AM
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MUSCULAR is/was a codename for a UK based bulk cable tap.
It's easy to confuse that with the name of a programme to reverse engineer and analyse Google internal traffic (which is presumably now over as all that traffic is encrypted), and I made that mistake myself, but I was corrected on HN no less by someone who is closer to the leaks than I am.
It wasn't something done with the knowledge of Google or Yahoo, as evidenced by the use of reverse engineering of the data formats.
It's easy to confuse that with the name of a programme to reverse engineer and analyse Google internal traffic (which is presumably now over as all that traffic is encrypted), and I made that mistake myself, but I was corrected on HN no less by someone who is closer to the leaks than I am.
It wasn't something done with the knowledge of Google or Yahoo, as evidenced by the use of reverse engineering of the data formats.