Jim Lawrence
accessd at shaw.ca
Thu Sep 5 20:14:44 CDT 2013
Hi Peter: I had not fully read all the articles. I have now; thank you muchly. Jim ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Brawley" <peter.brawley at earthlink.net> To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com> Sent: Thursday, September 5, 2013 3:44:56 PM Subject: [dba-Tech] protecting our privacy US and UK spy agencies defeat privacy and security on the internet http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/05/nsa-gchq-encryption-codes-security "...the National Security Agency and its UK counterpart GCHQ have broadly compromised the guarantees that internet companies have given consumers to reassure them that their communications, online banking and medical records would be indecipherable to criminals or governments. Those methods include covert measures to ensure NSA control over setting of international encryption standards, the use of supercomputers to break encryption with "brute force", and – the most closely guarded secret of all – collaboration with technology companies and internet service providers themselves. Through these covert partnerships, the agencies have inserted secret vulnerabilities – known as backdoors or trapdoors – into commercial encryption software." Sigint – how the NSA collaborates with technology companies http://www.theguardian.com/world/interactive/2013/sep/05/sigint-nsa-collaborates-technology-companies The US government has betrayed the internet. We need to take it back http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/05/government-betrayed-internet-nsa-spying 1) Hide in the network eg with Tor, 2) Encrypt communication with TLS or IPsec, 3) isolate sensitive documents with sneakernet, 4) for encryption use ony open source software, PB _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com