Re: Rise of the Dark Nets   
     By: Poindexter Fortran to S/370 on Sat Aug 17 2013 08:06 am   
      
    >   Re: Rise of the Dark Nets   
    >   By: S/370 to All  on Fri Aug 16 2013 09:52 pm   
    >    
    > S/> So any good tips on this subject? Are we safe from the NSA with SSH v2?   
    > S/> SSL? General thoughts?   
    >    
    > I think ubiquitous encryption helps. Encrypt your email to your friends, you   
    > shopping list, your secret love letters. Get a VPN, route everything through   
    > it. Run your web traffic through SSL through an SSH tunnel through your   
    > VPN. Increase the amount of crap that needs to be encrypted exponentially.   
    >    
      
   Although encrypting everything cannot hurt, I am afraid that it is impossible   
   to have private realtime communication. At best encryption can hide the whats,   
   but even mixers like tor cannot hide the whoms which could be enough to target   
   someone for more direct surveillance. Probably the best we can hope for is a   
   store and forward network that sends all traffic to everyone. That will let us   
   encrypt and decrypt with some assurance that the whoms cannot be derived.   
      
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