[Cryptography] NSA and Tor was Updates on Durov charges in France

[efc at disroot.org]

On Sun, 8 Sep 2024, iang wrote:

>> Companies can easily be shut down, or opened up by law enforcement.
>> Individual programmers can be threatened, open source projects can be
>> infiltrated.
>>
>> Once you're in the inside, it is way easier to attack a project.
>>
>> How would you protect against those types of attacks? Is there anything
>> organizational or legal, one can do, to reduce the possibility of those
>> things?
>
>
> Back in 2000s, when CAcert had a reasonable chance of being a real CA, 
> it faced a steady stream of attacks by 5-eyes IC (intelligence 
> community) that had put it on the list of must-breach, as with all CAs. 
> Now I don't suppose they bother that much, as it got blocked from the 
> browsers.  When Snowden revealed the term of art "Secret Cells" this was 
> penned in 2 parts:
>
> http://wiki.cacert.org/Risks/SecretCells
>
> It's a little bit complicated bc there are assumptions & history. In

Very interesting read. Thank you very much for the information! It does
seem though, that it just pushes the same questions over to the
arbitrator instead in some sense.