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Do you use Hola VPN? You could be part of a DDoS, content theft – or worse

FrankAlphaXII

Re: Coffee --> Screen

I don't believe in security. Only idealists and fools do.

Edward Snowden stole how many files off NSAnet and JWICS and didn't get caught? He knew noone was paying attention and exploited that lapse in security to create a conversation the world should have been having at the end of the Cold War. Aside from the National Command Authority's emergency action messaging system, JWICS alone is supposed to be the most secure communications network there is by design, and even they're vulnerable to an insider launching an attack.

I do believe in layers of security, that old defense in depth maxim. It costs more (whether its actual money or just time) but if you believe in keeping people who don't belong away from looking at your stuff it is well worth it. As long as it actually works correctly. But its hard to tell what works and what doesn't, especially not in the early days of an Arms race.

There will always be a way to counter any sort of defensive measures somehow anyway. Best you can do is make yourself so difficult a target and make your garbage look so interesting that A.) no one bothers because the problem looks too difficult, and B.) if they do manage to succeed, they don't get anything of value other than maybe some plaintexts which will have nothing to do with the real keys but are there to drive opposing forces cryptographers insaner and waste their time.

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