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...
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 ...