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Re: [Cryptography] Bruce Schneier has gotten seriously spooked

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (The Doctor)
Sat Sep 7 00:17:55 2013

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On 09/06/2013 08:48 PM, Chris Palmer wrote:

> Why would they perform the attack only for encryption software?
> They could compromise people's laptops by spiking any popular app.

What is more important to them: A single system, or all of the comms
going into and coming out of it?

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Too bizarre for real life, too normal to wind up on Art Bell.

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