OpenBSD and the latest OpenSSL bugs

Posted Jun 14, 2014 8:10 UTC (Sat) by malor (guest, #2973)
In reply to: OpenBSD and the latest OpenSSL bugs by dlang
Parent article: OpenBSD and the latest OpenSSL bugs

I didn't say the solution would be easy, just that it's necessary.

In a world of ubiquitous surveillance, people could die because of unencrypted discussions of this type. Nice people, ones you'd like to have over for beer and movie night, who happen to hold opinions that are deemed threatening by their government.

If a solution doesn't exist to let a group of security researchers discuss things in a fairly secure way, then we really need to write something. Perhaps something vaguely like SilentCircle might be appropriate.

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OpenBSD and the latest OpenSSL bugs

Posted Jun 17, 2014 14:53 UTC (Tue) by dlang (guest, #313) [Link]

> I didn't say the solution would be easy, just that it's necessary.

you can claim that it's necessary as much as you want, but I'm saying that you need to first establish that it's even possible.

I'm claiming that in an environment where you don't know who the people are, and where trying to establish who everyone is would be detrimental to your mission, keeping 'spooks' off of the list isn't going to be possible.