Re: "Revealed: how Microsoft handed the NSA access to encrypted messages"

On 7/11/2013 3:27 PM, piranna@gmail.com wrote:
>> I don't understand why a closed implementation of an API for encrypted media
>> helps the NSA get metadata about users emails and phone calls.
>>
> Are you kidding us? A closed implementation of WHATEVER can host
> anything inside it,

Sure I understand that part, but that appears to be related to the fact 
that certain companies ship closed code and has nothing to do with the 
specifics of EME.

>   from user activity loggers to keylogers,
> backdoors, trojans... Several years ago it was detected that a printer
> firmware (an external device whose purpose is NOT to store executable
> code!) had a virus and did a really impresive propagation...
>
> By definition, any box that's closed and you can't inspect can store
> the cancer's cure or an activated nuclear bomb ready to explote and
> you didn't notice about any of them.
>
>
> --
> "Si quieres viajar alrededor del mundo y ser invitado a hablar en un
> monton de sitios diferentes, simplemente escribe un sistema operativo
> Unix."
> – Linus Tordvals, creador del sistema operativo Linux

Received on Thursday, 11 July 2013 19:46:07 UTC