[Cryptography] Updates on Durov charges in France

[Peter Gutmann]

efc--- via cryptography <cryptography at metzdowd.com> writes:

>This is a weakness that I think is underaprpeciated. I mean the fact that
>many projects have a small core of programmers, who are know. In order to "
>break" the system, you can approach and kidnap members of the family of the
>programmers, or one programmer, and have him add bugs to the project.

That's an incredibly high-profile, visible attack, and kidnapping as a crime
is about... many orders of magnitude more pursuable and punishable by law
enforcement than changing a line or two of code in someone's project.

I would put this one in the movie-plot-attack category.

Peter.