These leaks have cost America the trust of an entire generation. In the last few months I deleted my gmail, linkedin, facebook, twitter, ebay and amazon accounts, and when my cellphone dies I won't buy another. If US companies deny their customers the basic human right that is dignity through privacy then it will be to their extreme financial loss. Personally I want no part of what these services have to offer because they do not respect me as a individual. I don't trust the hardware, the software, the services, the network, the companies or the government. And google can stick glass up their ass.
The NSA keep trying the same old trick. They want to orchestrate mass adoption of a system that appears secure but isn't. Somewhere in the technology stack there's a backdoor allowing the NSA access to the plaintext. We know what the NSA's two agendas are and its a huge conflict of interests for them to release a encryption system that they cannot themselves break. Even if the code appears secure they have rigged modern hardware to leak keys through side channels. _Of course_ Google's new system will be backdoored and _of course_ Google will be gagged. Google can never be trusted again. No matter what they say. The NSA are behind this. They are trying to provide a solution through Google because they fear people will move to develop a variety of encryption algorithms and products which will be expensive to analyze and break and automate surveillance of. Obscurity != Security but its fucking expensive.
The damage to their business is irreversible. Google sold out their users rights to privacy and didn't whisper a word about it until they got exposed. And then they lied and got caught again.
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These leaks have cost America the trust of an entire generation. In the last few months I deleted my gmail, linkedin, facebook, twitter, ebay and amazon accounts, and when my cellphone dies I won't buy another. If US companies deny their customers the basic human right that is dignity through privacy then it will be to their extreme financial loss. Personally I want no part of what these services have to offer because they do not respect me as a individual. I don't trust the hardware, the software, the services, the network, the companies or the government. And google can stick glass up their ass.
http://slashdot.org/story/13/04/04/1825231/want-to-keep-messages-from-the-feds-use-imessage These guys called it http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130405/01485922590/dea-accused-leaking-misleading-info-falsely-implying-that-it-cant-read-apple-imessages.shtml So leaked documents are being used for disinformation. Hmm... http://www.theguardian.com/world/interactive/2013/oct/04/tor-stinks-nsa-presentation-document
The NSA keep trying the same old trick. They want to orchestrate mass adoption of a system that appears secure but isn't. Somewhere in the technology stack there's a backdoor allowing the NSA access to the plaintext. We know what the NSA's two agendas are and its a huge conflict of interests for them to release a encryption system that they cannot themselves break. Even if the code appears secure they have rigged modern hardware to leak keys through side channels. _Of course_ Google's new system will be backdoored and _of course_ Google will be gagged. Google can never be trusted again. No matter what they say. The NSA are behind this. They are trying to provide a solution through Google because they fear people will move to develop a variety of encryption algorithms and products which will be expensive to analyze and break and automate surveillance of. Obscurity != Security but its fucking expensive.
The damage to their business is irreversible. Google sold out their users rights to privacy and didn't whisper a word about it until they got exposed. And then they lied and got caught again.