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Re: Bruce Schneier's Proposal to dedicate November meeting to saving the Internet from the NSA

Melinda Shore <melinda.shore@gmail.com> Fri, 06 September 2013 05:30 UTC

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Subject: Re: Bruce Schneier's Proposal to dedicate November meeting to saving the Internet from the NSA
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On 9/5/13 8:59 PM, Randy Bush wrote:
> side discussion wonders whether bruce may be a bit on the
> pollyanna side on this aspect.

That's a really interesting question, and I have no idea what
the answer is.  One reason it's interesting is that until
this all broke there was a reasonable assumption that as long
as you were more inconvenient to compromise than your neighbors,
you were safe.  That actually appears not to be the case at all
where eavesdropping is concerned.

Melinda

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