[166639] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: latest Snowden docs show NSA intercepts all Google and Yahoo
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lyndon Nerenberg)
Fri Nov 1 22:39:29 2013
From: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca>
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Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2013 19:35:40 -0700
To: "<nanog@nanog.org> list" <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Nov 1, 2013, at 7:18 PM, Mike Lyon <mike.lyon@gmail.com> wrote:
> So even if Goog or Yahoo encrypt their data between DCs, what stops
> the NSA from decrypting that data? Or would it be done simply to make
> their lives a bit more of a PiTA to get the data they want?
Markhov chain text generators are cheap. Rather than amping up the =
crypto, why not bury them under heaping piles of steaming bullshit?
After all, it would be the patriotic thing to do. Not only would you be =
helping employ your fellow network engineers (someone has to increase =
the size of the effluent pipes), you would be boosting manufacturing =
(disks for storage, high-end network gear for capture, mainframes and =
asics for filtering and analysis) and helping the much-maligned coal =
industry ensure its future prospects (that gear isn't built from =
electron sipping Atom CPUs, you know!).
--lyndon
