[Cryptography] Boing Boing pushing an RSA Conference boycott

Paul Ferguson fergdawgster at mykolab.com
Fri Jan 17 10:51:23 EST 2014


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On 1/16/2014 11:39 PM, ianG wrote:

> On 15/01/14 23:33 PM, Salz, Rich wrote:
>>> I never said they were evil, but it might be evil to
>>> reinterpret words to defend the indefensible, dunno.
>> 
>> Perhaps you haven't.  But others have.
>> 
>>> As has been repeatedly mentioned in this list, RSA were
>>> tricked.  They and the people within were not evil nor are they
>>> evil. Rather, *there but for the grace of the crypto gods go we
>>> all*.
>> 
>> Agree.  So why is a boycott a good thing?  Why punish someone for
>> being tricked?
> 
> 
> So, counterpoint.  Skype.
> 
> They weren't tricked, they turned -- it was a conscious decision of
> the owners to take the king's shilling somewhere around 2009,
> before the sale to Microsoft.
> 
> Skype now tracks the content back to HQ, as was reported by Heise, 
> proven by Adam, and leaked by Snowden.  Undoubtedly, at SKype HQ
> in Redmond there are friends from Ft Meade with their special fibre
> link, indeed the revelations say as much (can't recall where).
> 
> Why is there no boycott on Skype?
> 

Because the vast majority of users prefer convenience over security? I
can't really answer that.

Having said that, I stopped using Skype a while back -- it cannot be
trusted, as far as I am concerned.

- - ferg


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Paul Ferguson
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