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Re: Haystack redux
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alec Muffett)
Fri Sep 3 10:06:36 2010
From: Alec Muffett <alec.muffett@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <717CB1A1-4036-4888-A5D5-9CF8A76911B9@mobileactive.org>
Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2010 11:12:51 +0100
To: cryptography@metzdowd.com
Flamewar seems to have broken out:
http://neteffect.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2010/09/02/hay_what
I've had issues[1] with some of Morozov's previous writing[2] but if EM =
is reporting accurately how Haystack is deployed - let alone used - then =
even laying aside Kerckhoffs' principle / the lack of code transparency =
- I would fear for anyone using it seriously.
All it would take would be one little bit of malware in the samizdat =
zipfile...
-a
[1] http://dropsafe.crypticide.com/article/3499
[2] =
http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/2009/11/how-dictators-watch-us-on-the-we=
b/
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