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Re:Alternative Internet by kimlelly on Monday July 08, 2013 @10:20AM (#6006872)
What if the encrypted data streams that flow over decentralized p2p networks like RetroShare (http://retroshare.sourceforge.net/) would hold up and not be "decryptable" for the time we need to "undo" the mass-surveillance apparatus?

I mean, encryption could still be the one tool needed just to get activism going enough to beat the bastards (I mean, without being sabotaged, disinformed, killed, arrested, etc.).

Snowden's statement regarding encryption was: "Encryption works. Unfortunately, endpoint security is still weak."

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Re:Alternative Internet by cmpctyd on Monday July 08, 2013 @12:24PM (#6007560)
Any cryptographic application could be vulnerable and not "hold up". It is wrong and dangerous to suggest that any program or tool is absolute. A court case in Germany not long ago involving RetroShare and its f2f nature did not end well[0].

[0] http://torrentfreak.com/anonymous-file-sharing-ruled-illegal...

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Re:Alternative Internet by mtgx on Monday July 08, 2013 @04:08PM (#6008946)
I think it actually did end well. The guy was acquitted last I heard. I don't think their changes held up in Court.
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Re:Alternative Internet by baddox on Monday July 08, 2013 @08:13PM (#6010301)
> for the time we need to "undo" the mass-surveillance apparatus

You mean the apparatus that the vast majority of Americans are probably unaware of, and the vast majority of aware Americans are probably proponents of? What makes you think there will ever be an undoing on any reasonable time scale?

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