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So if his ex-company is telling the truth every one using truecrypt is using stolen code. Everyone who is auditing truecrypt is now in the same situation as those in the PowerVR SGX source code leak. Anyone who has looked at Truecrypt source code and plans to work on other software, is now a risk to the integrity of other encryption software. God damnit.
If the company he was employed by was dealing in encryption of any sort, and it was proprietary code, it doesn't matter what he says. Only a legal fight will bring any closure to the matter and determine once and for all whether it is or is not stolen code.
This blog post is from one of the PowerVR reverse engineers on the recent leak: http://libv.livejournal.com/26972.html
It's much the same scenario here, thanks to his ex-company's claim.
This blog post is from one of the PowerVR reverse engineers on the recent leak: http://libv.livejournal.com/26972.html
It's much the same scenario here, thanks to his ex-company's claim.
must every thread to do with personal privacy suffer such childish and narrow sighted comments. Even the well respected head of the manchester met ushered a word of warning over the UK becoming a police state this week.
Nubs who claim stuff like nothing to hide dont have more experience than the cheif of police so where exactly do you stand when they bring out the rubber glove, or is that what your secretly hoping for ? Its either that or these people are 'secretly scared' and ironically are hiding it
On a side note.. Sony studios suffered the worst hack in history recently with all sorts of personal information and addresses leaked .. but as one person put it : "whats the big deal, nothing to fear nothing to hide"
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Personally I love the open nature of the law in this situation.
Privacy International, Liberty, Amnesty International, the American Civil Liberties Union and a number of other overseas human rights groups took a case against GCHQ and its hoovering up of data. Yesterday the Investigatory Powers Tribunal ruled it is legal after hearing a large amount of evidence in secret, with the charities unable to defend against. Oh and there is no right to appeal anything the Investigatory Powers Tribunal says...
Hopefully the charities will subsequently take it to the European Court and they will get involved.
Secret evidence hearings and entire court cases appear to be becoming more and more common in the last few years. There have been a number of cases where people have been sent to jail yet no one except the judge (not even the defences lawyers) can view much of the evidence against them - how are you supposed to be able to mount a defence if you don't know what you are defending against? There have also been a number of cases recently where the media have not even been able to report them going ahead until after they have occurred, with the charges and even names of the accused banned from publication...
Privacy International, Liberty, Amnesty International, the American Civil Liberties Union and a number of other overseas human rights groups took a case against GCHQ and its hoovering up of data. Yesterday the Investigatory Powers Tribunal ruled it is legal after hearing a large amount of evidence in secret, with the charities unable to defend against. Oh and there is no right to appeal anything the Investigatory Powers Tribunal says...
Hopefully the charities will subsequently take it to the European Court and they will get involved.
Secret evidence hearings and entire court cases appear to be becoming more and more common in the last few years. There have been a number of cases where people have been sent to jail yet no one except the judge (not even the defences lawyers) can view much of the evidence against them - how are you supposed to be able to mount a defence if you don't know what you are defending against? There have also been a number of cases recently where the media have not even been able to report them going ahead until after they have occurred, with the charges and even names of the accused banned from publication...
Interesting, I didn't know they existed. Still doesn't negate the fact that it's a very dodgy line to be treading. Right to trial by your peers and to know the evidence against you are pretty high up the list of a democratic, free justice system... On the other hand the opposite case is pretty high up on the Police State justice system...
Our whole security state is fubar'd.
The politicians don't seem to care but we have a few other options out of this mess:
- EU court rules mass suspicion-less surveillance (e.g. tempora) illegal (this is likely imo but will take a while)
- Use services and products with strong encryption to force the market to change
- Use companies which do not work with NSA/GCHQ and which reside in jurisdictions beyond their reach
The politicians don't seem to care but we have a few other options out of this mess:
- EU court rules mass suspicion-less surveillance (e.g. tempora) illegal (this is likely imo but will take a while)
- Use services and products with strong encryption to force the market to change
- Use companies which do not work with NSA/GCHQ and which reside in jurisdictions beyond their reach
Good job they can lock u up until u give over your encryption key
The Matrix is a system, Neo. That system is our enemy. But when you're inside, you look around, what do you see? Businessmen, teachers, lawyers, carpenters. The very minds of the people we are trying to save. But until we do, these people are still a part of that system and that makes them our enemy. You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on the system, that they will fight to protect it.
or in other words shout "tin foil hat"
still, if your doing good in the system and your largely self orientated then why would you want it changing ?
It's like something out of Nazi Germany to prevent any dissent, had they had computers back then it would made the Gestapo's job a whole lot easier. Terrorists in the middle east are the ones oppressing us though of course.
If we're so whiter than white why are we so hellbent on punishing anyone who releases any secret information to the public? Why don't Russia have so many of these 'whistleblowers' coming out of the woodwork speaking against the Russian state? or China? could it be that they aren't up to no good behind the scenes and thus have no reason to pull the wool over their peoples eyes?
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Each to their own, of course.
its been hard for uk people to complain for many years until lately. Post war baby boomers just had a 40 year party and now everyone is cleaning up for them, it isnt so good anymore for many people.. a growing number including the middle classes. There are of course still many well off people and even if you showed them real clarity of thought over this they would still rather choose their lifestyle..
its hard to choose between cold hard decent ( not the game) and your new slippers, PS4 and 4k telly in your heated, warm home
as you say, each to their own the outcome will be the same either way in the next few decades.
linkage from my previous comment..
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/dec/05/peter-fahy-police-state-warning
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It is within the powers of law enforcement to issue you a RIPA section 49 notice which will request the disclosure of your encryption key. Failure to do so may result in a custodial sentence of up to two years. Dependent upon the investigation.
Change your DNS server and bang! The filter is gone...
It's like you and the other guy at the top of this page didn't read my response to the first person that gave me that spiel and just decided to HERPDERPDERPIKNOWLAWANDSTUFF