Comment Funded by the NSA? (Score 5, Insightful) 322
Funded by the NSA? After all we don't want them compiling their own OSs with home grown backdoors instead of American ones
Because were living in the Roman Empire.
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Mastercard and Visa are the only two companies that handle credit card transactions at the end of the day, and theyve often admitted theyre effectively the same company.
Don't American Express handle their own too?
Have you ever actually gone to California and smelled the air?
You can literally SEE the smog.
They are like the American version of China. Oh, and I heard that Apple employs Chinese slaves.
That's terrible. Why can't they employ Californian slaves instead?
Sure there is. All you have to do is use stegnography to encode your message into a photo, then use that photo in what looks like a spam email message, then pretend your computer is taken over by a botnet and send the spam to a few thousand email addresses (including the one you actually want to send to). Absolutely no useful metadata there.
Do you know what metadata is? It's the information like who it originated from and the destination address. That will still be
you can be compelled to give the encryption keys to the security services
In America, there would be a strong argument that this is in contravention of the Fifth Amendment of the consitution (as it would be self-incrimination). Not sure how that's played out though.
But yes, in the UK, there is a specific criminal offense of "Not disclosing your encryption key" which carries a 2 year sentence... and you can of course, be asked to disclose your key again once you've served it...
I think that you would have a good chance of arguing that being asked again after serving a sentence would be attempting to try the same offence again, for which a sentence had already been server. Of course you never know which way courts will go though.
Its still in America so its subject to NSL, patriot act and all those other "freedom" laws they have. American crypto just cant be trusted, fundamentally flawed by law.
Is that right? I assumed that US law was like UK law - there is no law against using strong encryption but you can be compelled to give the encryption keys to the security services.
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