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Re: Haystack (helping "dissidents"?)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Stewart)
Wed Sep 29 23:40:03 2010
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 12:06:59 -0700
To: cryptography@metzdowd.com
From: Bill Stewart <bill.stewart@pobox.com>
Cc: cryptography@metzdowd.com
In-Reply-To: <20100928023309.GA18484@homeport.org>
cryptography@metzdowd.com
>On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 04:49:19PM +0000, M.R. wrote:
>| I said (something like) this when Haystack first appeared on this
>| list...
>|
>| Words "dissidents" and "oppressive regimes" have no place in
>| serious discussions among cryptographers. Once we start assigning
>| ethical categorizations to those that protect and those that attack
>| (data files, communications channels, etc.) we are watering the
>| garden in which the weeds like Haystack flourish.
They do tell you what level of attack you're trying to block.
There's "spammers trying to crack your system for money",
but then there's "a national government that doesn't like you",
though I suppose it's possible that if you're not annoying
one of the top ten governments, you might get a larger attack by annoying
4chan.
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