On Sat, 11 Mar 2017 23:41:16 +0000 (UTC)
jim bell
https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2017/03/11/technology/ap-us-tec-wikileaks-c...
[partial quote]NEW YORK — If the tech industry is drawing one lesson from the latest WikiLeaks disclosures, it's that data-scrambling encryption works,
Misleading bullshit. Encryption used in wholly compromised hardware (that is, all americunt hardware), doesn't work because it doesn't accomplish what's supposed to accomplish.
and the industry should use more of it.Documents purportedly outlining a massive CIA surveillance program suggest that CIA agents must go to great lengths to circumvent encryption they can't break. In many cases, physical presence is required to carry off these targeted attacks."We are in a world where if the U.S. government wants to get your data, they can't hope to break the encryption,"
so they simply turn on the BIOS/UEFI hardware keylogger - keylogger that's actually turned on by default.
said Nicholas Weaver, who teaches networking and security at the University of California, Berkeley. "They have to resort to targeted attacks, and that is costly, risky
stupid lie
That was because any given internet message gets split into a multitude of tiny "packets," each of which traces its own unpredictable route across the network to its destination.The realization that spy agencies had figured out that problem spurred efforts to better shield data as it transits the internet. A few services such as Facebook's WhatsApp followed the earlier example of Apple's iMessage and took the extra step of encrypting data in ways even the companies couldn't unscramble,
more stupid lies
a method called end-to-end encryption.CHALLENGES FOR AUTHORITIESIn the past, spy agencies like the CIA could have hacked servers at WhatsApp or similar services to see what people were saying. End-to-end encryption, though, makes that prohibitively difficult. So the CIA has to resort to tapping individual phones and intercepting data before it is encrypted or after it's decoded.It's much like the old days when "they would have broken into a house to plant a microphone,"
except for the little detail that all hardware is compromised and working as spying devices by default. The partially quoted article is a chemically pure example of government propaganda and hopefully was offered as such...