Snowdon is a dummy

Then any American company is going to have a hard time selling any digit storage systems and so on.

It really is sweet of you oralloy to think the government gives a **** about a massacre or two. Excepting how it might exploit them in the furtherance of its fundamental objective. Power is addictive.
You sound like a Yes sir/ No sir man. Doesn't all progress come from Nays.

I was reading an analysis the other day that has it that NSA's #1 problem is that 99.9999999999999999999999999% of what it collects is crap so it cant find the good stuff. the #2 problem is that collecting all this crap is costly in treasure and good will towards the government.

I Am listening.

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He should be given a fair trial.

He should be given a medal and a lot of the people in our government who are daily breaking the constitution should be given trials.

I know that Frank is confused as to who the law breaker is.
What US laws did Snowden break for him to even stand trial?

Kangaroo court?

He revealed that the US government broke the laws.

There are laws based on our Constitution that Obama broke the law.

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We need the intelligence.

We do not need the email address books and friend lists of most of the world citizens to a tune of such lists being stolen on average half a millions a day.

The results of all this unneeded spying is that the US government is being locked out the control of the internet that we up to this point had been trusted with just to start with.

Then any American company is going to have a hard time selling any digit storage systems and so on.

But I think government gets more of a bad rap than it deserves.

Yes...we do need the intelligence.

Yes, that's what's brewing. Good time to start any digital company if you're not American.

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Researchers-to-Audit-TrueCrypt-to-See-If-It-s-Really-Secure-391588.shtml

Cryptography and information security experts are determined to audit TrueCrypt, the popular open source file and disk encryption software used by people from all over the world to protect their most sensitive information.

Kenneth White, principal scientist at BAO Systems, and Matthew Green, cryptographer and research professor at Johns Hopkins University, have started a couple of fundraisers to raise the money needed to perform a full audit of TrueCrypt.

The initiative comes in light of recent news regarding the NSA’s efforts to undermine encryption software.

“The 'problem' with Truecrypt is the same problem we have with any popular security software in the post-September-5 era: we don't know what to trust anymore,” Green said.

“We have hard evidence that the NSA istampering with encryption software and hardware, and common sense tells us that NSA is probably not alone. Truecrypt, as popular and widely trusted as it is, makes a fantastic target for subversion,” he added.

“But quite frankly there are other things that worry me about Truecrypt. The biggest one is that nobody knows who wrote it. This skeeves me out. As Dan Kaminsky puts it, 'authorship is a better predictor of quality than openness'. I would feel better if I knew who the TrueCrypt authors were.”

Green highlights the fact that even if the encryption software’s source code is trustworthy, many people use it as a Windows binary, which isn’t necessarily the same.

Besides a professional audit by security evaluation companies, the experts also want to have the license reviewed by a competent attorney, pay out bug bounties to those who find security issues, and implement deterministic/reproducible builds.

The fundraisers are on FundFill and Indiegogo. So far, over $22,000 (€16,000) have been raised.
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When you take actions that throw away any level of trust in either the US government or any companies working under US laws it is anyone guess where it will end.

Kenneth White, principal scientist at BAO Systems, and Matthew Green, cryptographer and research professor at Johns Hopkins University, have started a couple of fundraisers to raise the money needed to perform a full audit of TrueCrypt.

I would like Obama to keep any "reforms" to a minimum...and only after consultation with intelligence gathering experts.

Yes...we do need the intelligence.

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