Re:$200,000 to the first person to break Telegram
by jnbiche on Wednesday December 18, 2013 @06:45PM
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Excluding an entity like the NSA, who cares nothing for $200,000 (literally a rounding error in their budget), but everything for the information available for the taking.
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Re:$200,000 to the first person to break Telegram
by loganu on Wednesday December 18, 2013 @07:02PM
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While I agree with your point, immediately jumping to the NSA and their bottomless pool of resources and talent is kind of the new Godwin's law.
Logan's law: In any given discussion tangentially related to security, the thing presented as "secure" will be soon declared "definitely not secure"... because...NSA.
Re:$200,000 to the first person to break Telegram
by jnbiche on Wednesday December 18, 2013 @09:47PM
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I actually agree with the motivation behind your argument -- it's ridiculous to pull out unknown NSA capabilities as a foil to every crypto argument.
I just wanted to point out that there were times when money was not a very good motivator for someone who could break a given encryption system.