tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5313916164911265633.post5696542387957676206..comments2023-08-10T14:58:46.329+07:00Comments on Authority!: Russian to judgmentTimothy J Taylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10634355920003282809noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5313916164911265633.post-1970099371875330592017-01-11T19:09:21.738+07:002017-01-11T19:09:21.738+07:00JdL,
All the things you list are great practices ...JdL,<br /><br />All the things you list are great practices (although they can be cumbersome, of course).<br /><br />BUT: If state agents REALLY want to know what you're doing, encryption and such are not enough to stop them. At a bare minimum you'd need to build a computer from thoroughly vetted parts, then bury that computer in a hole in the ground in a Faraday cage and run it on battery power or power generated within that cage, perhaps surround the cage with other electronic emissions producing equipment, and encrypt everything on that computer before hand-carrying it out to load onto another computer for transmission. For more information, look up "Tempest" and "Van Eck Phreaking."<br /><br />I'm not saying the above would be ENOUGH, mind you. Just that that's the minimum you would have to do to hope for security IF THE STATE NOTICES YOU AND CARES ABOUT WHAT YOU'RE DOING.<br /><br />The best defense against state prying is for them not to notice you and care about what you're doing.Thomas L. Knapphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16271473384378782680noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5313916164911265633.post-12926787662267443352017-01-11T18:59:51.045+07:002017-01-11T18:59:51.045+07:00Good column. I just want to comment on one senten...Good column. I just want to comment on one sentence:<br /><br />"There is nothing electronically that we can do which escapes the attention of our own spooks."<br /><br />I think that's overly defeatist. We can encrypt every file that leaves the confines of our computers, and using Tor we can move those files to and from the cloud without government thugs knowing anything but the bandwidth we've used. We can arrange with friends to access the files we've posted, thus circumventing email altogether. Or we can use email but send encrypted files, or music and image files that contain secretly-embedded information (steganography).<br /><br />This is not to say the situation isn't bad; it is. Government criminals are everywhere, snooping on us and trying to run our lives. But it's not quite as desperate as this column would make out.JdLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00630104950043758864noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5313916164911265633.post-51104653737920349472017-01-09T23:10:19.391+07:002017-01-09T23:10:19.391+07:00"We invented computers."
Charles Babbag..."We invented computers."<br /><br />Charles Babbage and Alan Turing were British. Konrad Zuse was German.Thomas L. Knapphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16271473384378782680noreply@blogger.com