North Korea, Denying Sony Attack, Proposes Joint Investigation With U.S. 12 years ago
technology they could copy
Like DRMs?
Jokes aside, I have no idea what's going on with this whole story.
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About 1. it was the subject of the following Phrack's publication: http://phrack.org/issues/68/19.html#article
Cryptocat Considered Harmful: The Root Cause 13 years ago
Well a blog is probably going to have a first article :\
I agree that the "world" could benefit from an easier to use cryptography product than PGP (event thought I'm fine with PGP) and I think that this post is valid criticism.
Disclaimer: Not a cryptography expert in any way, neither annoyed by the fact cryptography is hard and will probably benefit from processes like peer-review.
Cryptocat Considered Harmful: The Root Cause 13 years ago
A nice quote from Phil Zimmerman from a comment in a post by Schneier which was posted in a comment to this post:
"I remember a conversation with Brian Snow, a highly placed senior cryptographer with the NSA. He said he would never trust an encryption algorithm designed by someone who had not earned their bones by first spending a lot of time cracking codes. That did make a lot of sense. I observed that practically no one in the commercial world of cryptography qualified under this criterion. "Yes", he said with a self assured smile, "And that makes our job at NSA so much easier." A chilling thought. I didn't qualify either. "
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2011/04/schneiers_law...
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By the way I think that Jeffrey Paul has a relevant point, I think it deserves to be taken into account. I understand his words can hurt Nadim Kobeissi nevertheless from my point of view they carry no such will.
Whatever happened to due process? 13 years ago
They are only ordering to redirect the domain to a sole ip address? Not serving HTTPS? Should links point to secure versions of seized domains or simply to attest their identity. I think it's ok to say they are the criminals on the internet and not necessarily the other way. Not that requests cannot be legitimate but at least a basic level of quality must go into the actual process because here it just looks awkward. Not to mention shitty html behind it: if you takedown domains, please show some style :)