Re:Cryptography May Not Be Dead, But It Is on Life Support
by brazzy on Tuesday January 21, 2014 @12:51PM
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The article argues that your assumption that "advanced" techniques used by motivated governments now will stay the exclusive domain of those governments is wrong.
IT systems and networks have become so large and complex that vulnerabilities are everywhere. Your home computer may have a small enough attack surface by itself, but is constantly communicating with systems who don't - and much of your important data is kept in those anyway.
Re:Cryptography May Not Be Dead, But It Is on Life Support
by pyre on Tuesday January 21, 2014 @01:11PM
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Some of those attacks are resource-intensive though. Only governments have the financing to carry them off, at least at the current time, and into the near-future.
IT systems and networks have become so large and complex that vulnerabilities are everywhere. Your home computer may have a small enough attack surface by itself, but is constantly communicating with systems who don't - and much of your important data is kept in those anyway.