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To: Bobalu
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Even PFS isn't complete proof against surveillance. It's possible to mount a more advanced attack, sometimes called a man-in-the-middle or active attack, and decode the contents of the communications.

A Wired article in 2010 disclosed that a company called Packet Forensics was marketing to government agencies a box that would do precisely that. (There is no evidence that the NSA performs active attacks as part of routine surveillance, and even those could be detected in some circumstances.)

The Packet Forensics brochure said that government agencies would "have the ability to import a copy of any legitimate key they obtain (potentially by court order)." It predicted that agents or analysts will collect their "best evidence while users are lulled into a false sense of security afforded by Web, e-mail or VOIP encryption."

11 posted on 07/25/2013 10:28:06 PM PDT by Errant
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To: Errant

It’s apparent that more work needs to be done to create better privacy solutions on the net.

At least PFS would make their work much harder and limit the number of targets they could handle...it just needs to be ubiquitous.


13 posted on 07/25/2013 10:33:34 PM PDT by Bobalu (It is not obama we are fighting, it is the media.)
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