[cryptome] Re: [cryptography] To Tor or not to Tor?
- From: Ryan Carboni <ryacko@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: Jane <third@xxxxxxxxx>, cryptome@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2014 14:17:14 -0700
seal your self in a lead box
in short
in reality, one must balance risks with benefits for every transaction and
interaction
On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 11:47 PM, Jane <third@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Dear Mr. Young!
> Could you condense your fairly complicated narrative into something more
> manageable and practical?
>
> Are you suggesting, mayhaps, that we should abandon any system that may
> have faults (either intended or accidental, and it's quite apparent that
> any human-engineered system will at the very least have accidental faults) ?
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 3:23 PM, John Young <jya@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Ubiquitous use of a comsec system is a vulnerability, whether
>> PGP or Tor or another popular means. Crypto advocates and
>> Tor encourage widespread use as a defense but may be luring
>> victims into traps. The more users of a system the more likely
>> it will be attacked by officials or by malefactors. And the attacks
>> are most often overlooked in the volume, or excused as a price
>> of popularity, fixes underway, always underway, keeping coders
>> and investors happy as engineers mud-wrestling and financiers
>> soused.
>>
>> Most trusted systems (MTS) are where the money is, as with banks,
>> so that's where robbers make their living, and MTS set up budgets
>> for loss, PR, lobbying, training staff in cover-ups and workarounds,
>> hiring ex-regulators and distinguished industry leaders as advisors,
>> board members and faces of the MTS around the planet.
>>
>> The lucrative boomlet in comsec generated by Snowden Inc's
>> marketing gambit promoting encryption and enhanced comsec
>> among media mouthpiece megaphones indicates that another
>> cycle of dubity of the status quo comsec confidence game is
>> to be followed by a repair and rejigger protection racket,
>> as evidenced on these mail lists, at conferences, and no doubt
>> in halls of semi-classified exchanges everready to share tips
>> and tricks to ratchet up demand for security in all its devilish
>> manifestations.
>>
>> Was it not mere months ago when a call was issued to redesign
>> and or replace the entire Internet from top to bottom, the whole
>> thing, to end the futile comsec tinkering and delusionary marketing,
>> no way the Frankenstein could be made secure for human use,
>> it had fundamental faults which precluded durable comsec.
>>
>> Perhaps re-Frankensteining is being done in semi-classified
>> halls, hindered by by official and commercial and scholarly
>> exploiters of the monster's faults to advance their interests
>> in advocating MTS for public use, just keep those research
>> and investment funds flowing.
>>
>> No risk, no security market, so what fool would want an Internet that
>> had no faults. No bank would want perfect security to be available
>> directly to customers. No military or spy agency would want perfect
>> national security available to the citizenry. No government would
>> want a threat-free populace. No comsec industry would want ...
>>
>> Best to aim for pretty good comsec and call it best that can
>> be done but cheating happens, thank you Edward Snowden,
>> so prepare for disaster "not if, not when, but now." Intel
>> committees wokring hand in hand with Snowden Inc. to keep
>> the public panicky and needful of secrecy protection of
>> the holy grail, national security backed by WMD.
>>
>> In short, Tor is a confidence game, crypto is a confidence game,
>> no better than military, espionage, publicity, entertainment, finance,
>> law, insurance, education and religion. Oops those are the primary
>> routes to wealth and power concentration and need for WMD
>> protection.
>>
>> What, you say WMD is a confidence game? Getoutahere, that's
>> top secret codeword core faith in secretkeeping. Without that
>> fundamental Frankensteinian fault nobody would buy security
>> against the Doctors of monsters working hard at most secret
>> laboratories on earth to devise crypto for assuring WMD comms
>> and launch threats are pretty good at persuading the public to
>> pay the steep protection fee -- which it should be noted is
>> laundered through IRS and NGOs, blessed by FRS and SEC.
>>
>> Damn 3 lettered agencies of God.
>>
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