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Re: [Cryptography] Kindle as crypto hardware

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James A. Donald)
Sat Dec 14 02:00:16 2013

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On 2013-12-12 04:59, Bill Frantz wrote:
> Note that many business organizations might be quite happy knowing that
> NSA could read their traffic as long as NSA maintains its "Never Say
> Anything" reputation. NSA's mistake was passing information about
> criminal activities to law enforcement rather than sticking to national
> security. That change of policy scared many businesses, since a clever
> prosecutor can find something illegal in almost any activity.

What he said.

Also, direct NSA involvement in politics, for example spying on General 
Petraeus.  This suggests that if you are republican politician, your 
emails, and your political consultant's emails, are likely to end up 
being shared with your Democratic party opponent's political consultants.

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