[Cryptography] dan geer's brilliant talk at rsa...

[Robert Hettinga]

On Mar 6, 2014, at 5:54 PM, Mark Seiden <mis at seiden.com> wrote:

> perhaps this is slightly off topic for the crypto list, but i think you’ll
> want to read this, the text of dan geer’s wise and brilliant 
> talk at last week’s rsa…
> 
> http://geer.tinho.net/geer.rsa.28ii14.txt
> 
> my favorite quote, so far:
> 
> 
> "We know, and have known for some time, that traffic analysis is
> more powerful than content analysis.  If I know everything about
> to whom you communicate including when, where, with what inter-message
> latency, in what order, at what length, and by what protocol, then
> I know you.  

Right. Metadata is holography.

Cheers,
RAH
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