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NSA Says They Have VPNs In a 'Vulcan Death Grip'
An anonymous reader sends this quote from Ars Technica:
The National Security Agency's Office of Target Pursuit (OTP) maintains a team of engineers dedicated to cracking the encrypted traffic of virtual private networks (VPNs) and has developed tools that could potentially uncloak the traffic in the majority of VPNs used to secure traffic passing over the Internet today, according to documents published this week by the German news magazine Der Speigel. A slide deck from a presentation by a member of OTP's VPN Exploitation Team, dated September 13, 2010, details the process the NSA used at that time to attack VPNs—including tools with names drawn from Star Trek and other bits of popular culture.
That is harder than you'd think. A surprising amount of data ends up going through the US. A lot of the EU-Asia traffic ends up going through the US as the indian ocean routes are relatively slow, and AFAIK Russia hasn't built any extensive cross continent fiber networks.
My guess is that you overlooked the "USA, AUS, CAN, GBR, NZL" at the top of the slides.
I am very small, utmostly microscopic.
Unless she has a twin sister, her genes are history.
Her genes are in the kid that shot her, unless the kid gets the death penalty.
No, that's not how it works. Her genes would only be in the kid if the kid was a clone.
Oh, good lord. Fine. Then by your pointlessly pedantic semantic lawyering, no mammal has ever passed on their genes, and every individual's genes are culled from the gene pool.
You can't split hairs by trying to disingenuously pretend the "passing on genes" synecdoche is understood differently than it is. People understand that children aren't clones, and they still call it passing on their genes.