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Re:The Great SIM Heist: How Spies Stole the Keys to the Encr... by bsder on Thursday February 19, 2015 @04:56PM (#9077370)
Personally, my biggest takeaway is that anything centralized is compromised, period.

Any centralized system is such a juicy target that the NSA will compromise it. The only way to avoid dragnet issues is to decentralize and force the NSA to expend resources at the edges.

This doesn't means that you can make an individual target secure. The NSA can always outspend you. But you can prevent the NSA from easily just vacuuming up everybody cheaply.

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Re:The Great SIM Heist: How Spies Stole the Keys to the Encr... by chinathrow on Friday February 20, 2015 @12:47PM (#9081630)
Agreed. I still wait to learn that AWS is compromised on a huge scale too. No words yet - mark this post and let's see and wait.
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Re:The Great SIM Heist: How Spies Stole the Keys to the Encr... by anonbanker on Monday February 23, 2015 @06:41AM (#9093764)
replying as breadcrumbs.
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Re:The Great SIM Heist: How Spies Stole the Keys to the Encr... by vmiroshnikov on Thursday February 19, 2015 @06:58PM (#9078041)
Yet you still have carefully to cloak yourself, otherwise you will bring more attention to yourself.
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