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Re: Keeping out Big Brother?

From	Davoud <star@sky.net>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject	Re: Keeping out Big Brother?
Date	2013-10-30 18:23 -0400
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<301020131823357894%star@sky.net> (permalink)
References	<l4rsf8$pgp$2@dont-email.me>

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Wes Groleau:
> Overall, this sounds pretty good, but
> 
>   - "You can view the source code to be sure there's no back door."
>     But you can't know whether the source code you viewed is what
>     they actually used.  Nor whether there is the kind of back door
>     described in http://tinyurl.com/d7ow765
> 
>   - Most of it sounds technically good, but the sentences about quantum
>     computing strike me as marketing hype more than technical reality.
> 
>   - There's really no way for a guy like me to be sure the principals
>     aren't actually NSA or some other group of spooks.  Or just a bunch
>     of scammers getting money from the paranoid and doing other than
>     claimed.
> 
> https://unseen.is/premium-landing.html

Nah. It's someone else guaranteeing what cannot be guaranteed. Hosted
in Iceland? How does it get to Iceland, by trusted courier? And what's
so special about Iceland, anyway? If it's on the Internet, it's subject
to compromise. Get over it, everyone.

-- 
I agree with almost everything that you have said and almost everything that
you will say in your entire life.

usenet *at* davidillig dawt cawm

Thread

Keeping out Big Brother? Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2013-10-30 17:07 -0400
  Re: Keeping out Big Brother? Davoud <star@sky.net> - 2013-10-30 18:23 -0400
    Re: Keeping out Big Brother? Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2013-10-30 19:57 -0400
      Re: Keeping out Big Brother? Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2013-10-30 20:07 -0400
        Re: Keeping out Big Brother? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2013-10-31 02:43 +0000
          Re: Keeping out Big Brother? Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2013-10-30 23:51 -0400
            Re: Keeping out Big Brother? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2013-10-31 05:22 +0000
              Re: Keeping out Big Brother? android <here@there.was> - 2013-10-31 07:42 +0100
                Re: Keeping out Big Brother? Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2013-10-31 09:22 -0400
                Re: Keeping out Big Brother? android <here@there.was> - 2013-10-31 16:50 +0100
                Re: Keeping out Big Brother? Davoud <star@sky.net> - 2013-10-31 12:03 -0400
  Re: Keeping out Big Brother? Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2013-10-30 18:28 -0400
    Re: Keeping out Big Brother? Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2013-10-30 19:41 -0400

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