Re:A Little-Known Company That Enables Mass Surveillance
by tptacek on Sunday October 23, 2016 @10:39AM
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They can't do anything with encrypted data, except (badly) try to detect that it's encrypted in the first place.
Are they basically cracking encryption ? I thought the kind of encryption provided by VPN services (256-bit AES/CBC) was strong enough? If that's what they do, aren't they violating privacy laws ? Aren't they breaching companies such as Google, Facebook etc... T&C ? Are they installing some kinds of trojans, keyloggers and stuff on 3rd parties computers ? Isn't what they are selling black hat hacking solutions ? Or are they only capturing clear traffic ? which is not necessarily very meaningful.
It says : "extract information about people’s usage of services such as Gmail, Hotmail, WhatsApp, and Facebook"
The latest terms and conditions you had to acknowledge recently to continue using watsapp (yes, I read them!) mentionned that they don't keep a record of the content being exchanged via watsapp. So, is watsapp lying ? Or what does this Endace system records ? Watsapp T&C also say that they use a strong encryption. so, FTW?