Re: [dsfjdssdfsd] Discussion: Malicious Entropy Attacks: Eggs, and Baskets

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On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 08:43:36PM -0400, Arnold Reinhold wrote:
> 2. The personal privacy threat model, which fears the mass
> surveillance society, doesn’t trust corporate vendors and certifying
> bodies, and considers state actors principal threats. I’d put
> Bitcoin and the like here.

... and this also needs to separated into the "proof against a
targetted attack" and "protect against mass surveillance".

There's a big difference between NSA or FBI cutting a deal with AT&T
so that they get to put an Carnivore style keyword monitoring device
in a telephone closet at a fiber exchange point, and the FBI deciding
to park a Tempest van outside of your house.

Cheers,

						- Ted