From: Dossy (dossy@panoptic.com)
Date: Tue Apr 30 2002 - 07:27:33 MDT
On 2002.04.30, KPJ <kpj@sics.se> wrote:
> It appears as if <ckuecker@ckent.org> wrote:
>
> |I would believe they have to capability to monitor any given line at a
> |moment's notice - perhaps hundreds of thousands at once - but this is a far
> |cry form recording every word.
>
> I guess the domestic surveillence in the U.S. does not include all phone
> calls. Yet.
It saddens me to see people on the bleeding edge of technology
forgetting that all communication, as ephemeral as it may appear
to our senses, is all store-and-forward, even if the "store"
portion is trivially short.
Recently, I saw something about a circuit design that could be
massively paralleized to break 1024-bit RSA keys in a very
reasonable amount of time. It appears that the attitude is
that "now 1024-bit keys are not secure!" ... when have they
ever been?
Anyone with the ability to access communcations (governments
in particular) could simply be recording everything, storing
it, with the intent to decrypt and examine communications
years in the future. The hope is that most communications
are of timely importance and so deciphering it in the future
may be meaningless. However, how many conspiracies that
were orchestrated "in secret" under encryption, etc., even
if isolated, decrypted and examined many years from now,
would change the face of the world in unpredictable ways?
The argument that "it would be too costly to archive all
that data" might work if we were talking about the private
sector doing it. We're talking about governments with
virtually unlimited resources and the cost of digital storage
so inexpensive ...
I think you get the picture,
-- Dossy
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"He realized the fastest way to change is to laugh at your own
folly -- then you can let go and quickly move on." (p. 70)
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