Re:Was the iOS SSL Flaw Deliberate?
by iaskwhy on Thursday February 27, 2014 @11:27AM
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I understand your point but you might be missing NSA view on this. Their goal is (apparently) to source as much data as possible and, although breaking a jaw doesn't sound expensive as a one-off, it gets extremely expensive when doing it for a given percentage of the world population. In our own language, it's not scalable. And neither are the other options. Global automation of the gathering of personal data is much cheaper and much more useful (again, apparently).
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>Global automation of the gathering of personal data is much cheaper and much more useful (again, apparently).
And completely legal (from their perspective), whereas attacking foreign citizens gets into grey areas.
While I agree with you, I don't think that's a grey area from their perspective either. The CIA has done it with the support of other governments.
Re:Was the iOS SSL Flaw Deliberate?
by zacinbusiness on Thursday February 27, 2014 @11:46AM
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That's a fair point. Really the whole thing bugs me. It seems they could be solving real problems with all those cycles.