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Snowden Seeks To Develop Anti-Surveillance Technologies
An anonymous reader writes Speaking via a Google Hangout at the Hackers on Planet Earth Conference, Edward Snowden says he plans to work on technology to preserve personal data privacy and called on programmers and the tech industry to join his efforts. "You in this room, right now have both the means and the capability to improve the future by encoding our rights into programs and protocols by which we rely every day," he said. "That is what a lot of my future work is going to be involved in."
If making people realise that their basic rights are being trampled makes me a traitor, then I'd want to be a traitor any day...
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"You in this room, right now have both the means and the capability to improve the future by encoding our rights into programs and protocols by which we rely every day,"
Looking at you Slashdot.
When are we going to have access to this site with https? You can stop pushing down out throats your fucking annoying beta and do something useful for everybody instead.
As long as it's not the latest curve, privacy preserving crypto can be written by NSA itself, and still be secure for you. SELinux was written by NSA, and I don't have a problem using it. Your security model shouldn't rely on the party your software came from. It should rely on the software itself, idependent reviews, and, if you can't afford your own review, the many-eyes-principle (which has chilling effects).
The russians could only say "this is too secure, design something that can be broken more easily".
Bull shit... OpenSSL is open source and look at all the crap they found this quarter alone...
They found all that *because* OpenSSL is open source. How much have they found in closed source versions of SSL libraries?