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Someone found this and sent it to me. |
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http://news.yahoo.com/internet-experts-want-security-revamp-nsa-revelations-020838711--sector.html |
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I'm not to concerned about the political aspect of this but do have to |
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wonder what this means when we use sites that are supposed to be secure |
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and use HTTPS. From reading that, it seems that even URLs with HTTPS |
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are not secure. Is it reasonable to expect that even connections |
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between say me and my bank are not really secure? |
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Also, it seems there are people that want to work on fixing this and |
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leave out any Government workers. Given my understanding of this, that |
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could be a very wise move. From that article, I gather that the tools |
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used were compromised before it was even finished. Is there enough |
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support, enough geeks and nerds basically, to do this sort of work |
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independently? I suspect there are enough Linux geeks out there to |
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handle this and then figure out how to make it work on other OSs. I use |
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the words geek and nerd in a complimentary way. I consider myself a bit |
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of a geek as well. :-D |
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One of many reasons I use Linux is security. I always felt pretty |
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secure but if that article is accurate, then the OS really doesn't |
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matter much when just reaching out and grabbing data between two puters |
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over the internet. I may be secure at my keyboard but once it hits the |
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modem and leaves, it can be grabbed and read if they want to even when |
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using HTTPS. Right? |
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This is not Gentoo specific but as most know, Gentoo is all I use |
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anyway. I don't know of any other place to ask that I subscribe too. I |
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figure I would get a "no comment" out of the Government types. ROFL |
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Plus, there are some folks on here that know a LOT about this sort of |
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stuff too. |
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Again, I don't want a lot of political stuff on this but more of the |
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technical side of, is that article accurate, can it be fixed and can we |
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be secure regardless of OS. It seems to me that when you break HTTPS, |
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you got it beat already. |
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Am I right on this, wrong or somewhere in the middle? |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words! |