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Re: [Cryptography] [RNG] /dev/random initialisation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (ianG)
Wed Nov 6 02:09:11 2013
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Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2013 08:35:17 +0300
From: ianG <iang@iang.org>
To: cryptography@metzdowd.com
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On 6/11/13 00:44 AM, James A. Donald wrote:
> On Nov 4, 2013, at 10:40 PM, James A. Donald <jamesd@echeque.com> wrote:
>>> Since the hit came a long time after the message, it would not have
>>> been useful in protecting the recipient from clicking on links to
>>> phishing sites.\
>
> On 2013-11-06 01:22, Jerry Leichter wrote:
>> So you think it's all about *you*? If a mechanism doesn't protect
> > *you*, *right now*, it's not a security mechanism?
Claiming it is to protect you is an old trick. Don't give it a moment's
thought, save the analysis for important problems.
> If the point is to protect the population at large, the first step would
> be to detect spammed urls, not unique urls.
>
> If spying on me to protect me from myself, need to interrupt immediately.
>
> If spying on me to protect the population at large (which I violently
> object to) then should be hitting on non unique urls.
>
> The observed behavior pattern only makes sense if they are spying on me
> for dangerous thoughts, racism, the wrong kind of Islam (those
> misunderstanders of Islam), sexism in the workplace, homophobia, or, as
> with General Petraeus, blackmail material that some of the political
> elite can use against others of the political elite.
https://twitter.com/ashk4n/status/375758189444493312/photo/1
Clues... and might put to bed some other conspiracy theories of
hardware level manipulation.
iang, proudly wearing the tin foil hat today
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