Edward Snowden Q&A

Re:Edward Snowden Q&A by jeanjq on Monday June 17, 2013 @12:51PM (#5894258)

The Guardian approach to this thing is infuriating. There's little useful information from it. eg this question and answer

Question: Is encrypting my email any good at defeating the NSA survelielance? Id my data protected by standard encryption? Answer: Encryption works. Properly implemented strong crypto systems are one of the few things that you can rely on. Unfortunately, endpoint security is so terrifically weak that NSA can frequently find ways around it.

Pfft. What size RSA keys are unbroken (2 048, 4 096, 8 192)? Is there a backdoor in the ECC NIST P256 (or similar) curve? How many TOR exit nodes does the US government manage and how good are they at in/out correlation?

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Re:Edward Snowden Q&A by kbenson on Monday June 17, 2013 @12:56PM (#5894286)

He may view that as beyond the scope of what he's comfortable releasing, if he knows it. Remember, he's not supposed to be bashing the NSA and releasing all secrets, but specifically blowing the top off what he believes is an illegal program. Releasing unrelated secrets from the NSA would probably have a negative effect on that.

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Re:Edward Snowden Q&A by thaumaturgy on Monday June 17, 2013 @01:15PM (#5894429)

You should be using I2P, not Tor. Just FYI.

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