Re:At the RSA Security Conference, Things Get Testy
by a3n on Saturday March 01, 2014 @10:00AM
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> imposing a cost on RSA provides an incentive
Exactly. And that's the potential effectiveness of boycotting US businesses, and infrastructure like undersea cables. Of course the NSA can get at data almost anywhere in the world. You can't stop their technical ability.
But you can hurt US business by not using them. If that loses US business serious money, then the "heavily lobbied" Congress will change the NSA. Harumphs will be heard throughout the halls of Congress.
We don't know who the other participants in BULLRUN are. We don't know if companies or standards bodies are compromised from the top down like RSA or the bottom up through subverted employees.
It was important to protest RSA because imposing a cost on RSA provides an incentive to companies to resist BULLRUN through stronger internal security and extracting a higher price for C-Level cooperation.
- RSA security tried to force some of our members off the public sidewalk. (https://restorethefourthsf.com/rsa-thinks-as-little-of-the-f...)
- Most of our volunteers had positive interactions with conference attendees(https://restorethefourthsf.com/the-rsa-conference-protestvol...)
There were some lovely photos of the event from the independent press.
https://secure.flickr.com/photos/ari/tags/rsac/