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Re: [Fwd: I-D Action: draft-carpenter-prismatic-reflections-00.txt]

Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net> Sat, 21 September 2013 05:48 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Fwd: I-D Action: draft-carpenter-prismatic-reflections-00.txt]
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On 21/09/2013, at 11:33 AM, Masataka Ohta <mohta@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp> wrote:

> Cost for monitoring should be large?
> 
> Then, protocols not have any authoritative specification and
> should never be standardized and there should be no central
> authority to manage different versions of the protocols.

From a PRISM viewpoint, the cost of parsing different formats, understanding different wire protocols, etc. is trivial. The real cost is negotiating with / bullying each provider into giving access. Especially if it's not hosted or doing business in a country you control.

>> I should be able to choose my own data sync server, whether
>> it's one I run, or one run by my paranoid friend, or by a
>> local company, or a US company that's in bed with the NSA.
> 
> The only secure way is to run your own.

That's a very simplistic definition of "secure."


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