NSA has direct access to tech giants' systems for user data, secret files reveal

Pray tell, what is the optimal time for total world dictatorship?

 

It's too late. We're already living in a simulation

 

One thing in that article from Bruce Schneier is causing some "discussion" in The Netherlands. He writes there that the DigiNotar (the former Dutch CA authority) hack in 2011 is maybe used by the NSA or was maybe the work of the NSA.
(We had several threads here in the past about that hack of DigiNotar.)
Is it true? No idea.

Some Dutch links:

Dutch Newspaper NRC:
http://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2013/09/14/nsa-maakte-gebruik-van-hack-it-bedrijf-diginotar/

Dutch site Tweakers:
http://tweakers.net/nieuws/91293/nsa-maakte-misbruik-van-lek-diginotar.html

 

When all the harbour lights are lined up.

Some of those harbour lights are to do with the implementation factor. There is a technological aspect that has it's part to play. In other words a few short decades ago, there weren't the necessary things in place that there is now, to fully bring in this system. When "they" pull this thing off, there truly will be no going back until this era has run it's course.

I agree that's its too late. It is being ushered in right now. The loss of privacy is a means to an end, and only one part to this huge multifaceted prism, which sure has more than 5 eyes. Im sure for those interested enough, a startpage search will reveal who the first leader was to mention the term NWO (New World Order) It was publicly introduced 2 or 3 decades ago, slowly at first until people have heard it so often they don't bat an eye. Other words/phrases used to in conjunction with this to condition people for this era are "globalist village" "Internationalist" and the like.

 

Re: How the feds asked Microsoft to backdoor BitLocker, their full-disk encryption tool

Exactly. I heard Diskcryptor is also pretty good, but I would only trust open source software which we can inspect the coding for any backdoors.

 

Re: How the feds asked Microsoft to backdoor BitLocker, their full-disk encryption tool

Thanks, Lotus!

 

Re: How the feds asked Microsoft to backdoor BitLocker, their full-disk encryption tool

I opted not to encrypt the main system partition. There's nothing of any value there. The data partitions and a large amount of the external drive are encrypted by Scramdisk, using Blowfish of course.

 

A few more things need to be completed. These are some of them.
1, Governments who won't join the NWO will be eliminated, such as we're seeing in the middle east now.

2, Genetically modified seeds control the market. Seeds for food that reproduce true to their parents will be illegal or extinct. The same is being applied to livestock now. Look up Monsanto and pig farmers. Well underway and expanding fast.

3, Alternatives to conventional medicine will be made illegal. Medicinal plants will become someones "intellectual property", even though they were known for centuries. That's the primary purpose of the FDA. This is more than halfway implemented now.

4, People will be forced to carry or have implanted trackable IDs, RFID type or similar. Services required to live won't be available to those who don't. First steps of its implementation has already been seen in schools.

5, It will become impossible or illegal to use any non approved equipment on the internet, and nearly impossible to hide your identity without being extremely skilled. Also well underway. Examples, IPv6, Trusted computing, backdoors.

 

noone_particular

Absolutely. Everyone who is an honest seeker should find irrefutable evidence for everything you've noted here. The rub is, there are enough bandwagons for one to get on to sink a battle ship, and we are past the point of no return because all these huge things are so far on in the plan no one can stop it. People are waking up but too late. Put it another way, the NWO tentacles are found everywhere around everything.

There are many things I could add to your list, but specifically with privacy issues, here's another shocker: Smart-meters. Even aside from privacy and security issues, these are a horror story all in their own right BUT those who drill down far enough and in the right direction will find these all lead to the same game plan. Again, everything is being maneuvered into position. Just as what we all see with this ever growing level of surveillance, so there will be no place for dissenters in this system. That's what its all for in the end.

Look at the illustration and see how the PTB (powers that be) can monitor what youre doing in you own home. Consider what deductions they can come to about your life.

https://smartmeterpowerstruggle.wordpress.com/

When the hammer finally hits it will hit hard.

 

http://www.spiegel.de/international...international-bank-transactions-a-922276.html

 

hi
We live in a wonderful world part II
http://getprsm.com/

Rgds

 

Re: How the feds asked Microsoft to backdoor BitLocker, their full-disk encryption tool

The usual people spinning theory into fact.

The article is about how the developers were approached and how they denied adding a backdoor, not about how they bent over and said "sure thing".

But as always with encryption, it's a case of trust. While you're better off trusting more common forms of open source disk encryption, you can be sure the reason that BitLocker isn't in the normal versions of Windows was the compromise the developers made to shut up the agencies.

 

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/15/nsa-mind-keith-alexander-star-trek

 

That's good!

Thanks

 

Must be awesome to have a budget that fits even your childlike dreams.

 

Actually, the control room looked barely B-movie grade. The steel is unevenly curved in places, and the design is clunky.

The NSA's overall efficiency and security are no better, it seems

 

Re: How the feds asked Microsoft to backdoor BitLocker, their full-disk encryption tool

Schneier's been working with the Snowden documents (in addition to his years of experience in the field), and while he claims no special knowledge, his feeling is that TrueCrypt is less less likely to be backdoored than either PGP Disk or BitLocker. He even uses BitLocker as the example when talking about how it is easier to backdoor proprietary programs in his Guardian piece.

 

Re: How the feds asked Microsoft to backdoor BitLocker, their full-disk encryption tool

It's not about "theory" vs "fact". It's about what's prudent. If I'm running across the desert in northern Arizona, I don't need to know for sure whether that little dip ahead is a slot canyon or not. I know that it might be, and so I'm careful. See?

So you think that they'd admit it on the record?

I totally agree

How can I be sure of that?

 

On the NSA breaking most encryption on the Internet

This is basically where the "Majority of Tor crypto keys could be broken by NSA, researcher says" thread comes from. But that's really focused on the Tor implications of this bigger story...

I was kind of surprised there wasn't a thread for it:

The NSA Is Breaking Most Encryption on the Internet

The NSA's Cryptographic Capabilities

Conspiracy Theories and the NSA

Matthew Green Speculates on How the NSA Defeats Encryption

Ed Felten on the damage caused by the NSA secretly breaking the security of Internet systems

 

Re: On the NSA breaking most encryption on the Internet

Yes, that's the big story

It's hard to say how hosed we are, based on what's been released so far. However, I'm somewhat reassured by Schneier's statement:

Generally, the best advice seems to be using RSA with 4K keys, Twofish and Serpent, and avoiding AES, DSA and ECC.

Do I have that right?

Edit: I didn't Move AES to the OK list.

 

Re: On the NSA breaking most encryption on the Internet

Nah, it's a bit better than that, according to Schneier at least. He'd probably avoid ECC, but RSA and DSA are basically the same in terms of cryptanalytic advances. So it's not really about one or the other, it's just about using long enough keys. I would stick to at least 2048, but I see little reason not to go with 4096. RC4 still seems okay, but back in March he suggested we start moving away from it...to something like AES. Which brings to the final point: AES appears okay as well. Better than okay, actually.

As covered in the links here as well as this article, AES is more than likely secure. (Possibly better than Twofish & Serpent, depending on how you look at it.) In fact, you were the one who posted the link to Schneier's latest endorsement (more or less) of AES. (Granted, there he was just stating he trusts it, but multiple times in the past he's specifically recommended it, even over Twofish.)

 

Re: On the NSA breaking most encryption on the Internet

OK, fair enough.

But I've seen advice for years to move from DSA to RSA. In SSH, for example. So is Schneier really saying that they're comparable in practice?

 

Time to take away their toys:

http://www.theverge.com/2013/9/15/4...ance-center-redesigned-as-starship-enterprise

 

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/15/nsa-mind-keith-alexander-star-trek

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...ia-director-says-terrorists-love-using-gmail/

 

Oriana Fallaci