[liberationtech] Interesting Q&A

[Helder Ribeiro]

On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 5:23 PM, Richard Brooks <rrb at acm.org> wrote:
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> From Guardian Q&A with Snowden
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> http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/17/edward-snowden-nsa-files-whistleblower
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> Is encrypting my email any good at defeating the NSA survelielance? Id
> my data protected by standard encryption?
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> Answer:
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>     Encryption works. Properly implemented strong crypto systems are one
> of the few things that you can rely on. Unfortunately, endpoint security
> is so terrifically weak that NSA can frequently find ways around it.

How strong is strong enough?

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