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Re: [Cryptography] Boing Boing pushing an RSA Conference boycott
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Arnold Reinhold)
Sat Jan 18 00:42:23 2014
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From: Arnold Reinhold <agr@me.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 13:28:14 -0500
To: "cryptography@metzdowd.com" <cryptography@metzdowd.com>
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Some thoughts:
1. The notion that one can buy security software from a large American company that will reliably thwart the NSA is silly.
2. The notion that one can buy security software from any vendor and use the default settings indefinitely without access to independent cryptographic expertise to advise on new threats is silly.
3. If I were working for NSA tasked with with disrupting the independent cryptographic community's response to the Snowdon revelations, I'd be hard pressed to come up with a better idea than a boycott of the RSA conference.
Arnold Reinhold
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