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Re: [Cryptography] Snowden "fabricated digital keys" to get access

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alec Muffett)
Sat Jun 29 15:22:16 2013

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Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2013 14:34:14 +0100
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>>[John here.  Let's try some speculation about what this phrase, "fabricating
digital keys", might mean.]

My own, personal guess is that it is obfuscation which translates as "using
passwords" or "accessing a portal over SSL" plus "we're too embarrassed to
admit that it was that easy".

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ot;accessing a portal over SSL&quot; plus &quot;we&#39;re too=A0embarrassed=
=A0to admit that it was that easy&quot;.</div>


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