The fact that the NSA has these capabilities may seem like a given – but it’s far from it: Modern cryptology is highly secure, and many doubted the spy agency had reached this level of penetration. Even the spies themselves were surprised by the NSA’s cryptanalysis capabilities. In ...
Given the level of development effort that has gone into SELinux, one would have to believe that the NSA is capable of throwing away tens of programmer-years for an uncertain, but almost certainly small intelligence return. I don’t doubt they’d like a backdoor into every linux box on t...
All the true scotsmen knew Nixon was up to no good, and writing it out long-form in a newspaper that risked not only their careers but that institution itself? Just grandstanding attempts at social change, bah! Snowden was naive? You’re being naive. Snowden made a very long-form calculu...