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Re: [LUG] OT(ish): UK holds Microsoft security talks

 

Kevin Tunison wrote:
A while back I recall a bit of news about
dead-dropping<http://e2utalk.com/index.php?showtopic=1344>
which makes the "fight against terror" fall flat.  If it is accepted the
required backdoors are not for protection of its (the countries) people but
enforcement of paying copyright holders, that is just wrong.

Surely the "dead dropping" approach described only reduces the amount of data transfer and ensurse that the only data that is transferred is sent via http (presumably SSL) and not via standard mail routes. Some web mail systems only use SSL when verifying passwords and the rest of the session is plan old unencrypted http. This does not in anyway avoid having to transmit data, mealy changes the methods that are employed and requires different methods to monitor, that are equally as trivial. Anybody sniffing the http session would see the message in its full plain text glory.

Robin




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