tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post4900847840751935637..comments2024-03-28T20:53:49.167-04:00Comments on The Adventures of Roberta X: Communications SecurityRoberta Xhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09956807794520627885noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post-90511898597236467712015-11-17T08:08:39.430-05:002015-11-17T08:08:39.430-05:00Well spotted, Guffaw! :)Well spotted, Guffaw! :)Roberta Xhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09956807794520627885noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post-88837230579746773142015-11-16T09:36:06.664-05:002015-11-16T09:36:06.664-05:00The Phone Company.
TPC - weren't they the ulti...The Phone Company.<br />TPC - weren't they the ultimate villain in 'The President's Analyst'?<br /><br />gfaGuffaw in AZhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15356210589713923042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post-46054578617305036982015-11-16T08:15:27.754-05:002015-11-16T08:15:27.754-05:00If it's not vulnerable to a direct attack, it ... If it's not vulnerable to a direct attack, it is to an orthogonal one. By sending obviously encrypted communications, you have already marked yourself and your correspondents as persons of interest. It is only necessary to subvert or control one end.<br /><br /> If communications secrecy ever becomes a matter of life and death, expect a lot of people to not make it.Roberta Xhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09956807794520627885noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post-22183223492234350412015-11-15T22:09:42.639-05:002015-11-15T22:09:42.639-05:00I should expand: They need to copy the pads befor...I should expand: They need to copy the pads before they are used, because they won't exist afterwards because you will have destroyed them.dittybopperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17643950172836401424noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post-19046751034143190432015-11-15T22:08:08.730-05:002015-11-15T22:08:08.730-05:00Actually, you can communicate through e-mail and o...Actually, you can communicate through e-mail and other electronic means without the NSA being able to read the plaintext, but most people won't go through the trouble. <br /><br />You have encrypt and decrypt manually, using a pencil and paper, and using one time pads (which have to be on paper and not generated with a computer - I use 10-sided dice and a typewriter to make numeric pads). <br /><br />If you follow the simple rules of one time pad use, and you keep the plaintext and the keys off a computer (and destroy them by burning immediately after use), then there is no way they can read what you sent short of them physically breaking into your home and copying the pads. And pads are easy to hide.<br /><br />If you make the packaging tamper evident, and you carry around the one you've currently opened on your person, you will know if they've been compromised, and security is preserved because you can then send inanities instead of real messages. Or, just sent the pad pages themselves: There would be know way for them to know that isn't what you were doing in the first place.<br />dittybopperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17643950172836401424noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post-38872044636050699062015-11-15T17:04:35.490-05:002015-11-15T17:04:35.490-05:00"'Pleeeeeeze don't throw me into that..."'Pleeeeeeze don't throw me into that briar patch,' pleaded Brer Rabbit" Joel Chandler Harris was cribbing, but he cribbed from a deep well of collected wisdom.Roberta Xhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09956807794520627885noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post-49071684741935928402015-11-15T15:57:04.391-05:002015-11-15T15:57:04.391-05:00Play games? Belgian Home Affairs Minister says th...Play games? Belgian Home Affairs Minister says their Terrorists (Molenbeek, Belgium known as 'Jihad capital of Europe') are using Playstation-4 and multiplayer games to communicate to with each other: <a href="http://qz.com/550365/belgian-home-affairs-minister-says-isil-communicates-over-playstation-4/" rel="nofollow">and is difficult for the authorities to monitor. “PlayStation 4 is even more difficult to keep track of than WhatsApp,” he said."</a>NotClauswitzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14358707844087117280noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post-73234565104591401602015-11-15T09:02:58.740-05:002015-11-15T09:02:58.740-05:00The original quote was, "Three can keep a sec...The original quote was, "Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead." It was allegedly originally said by Benjamin Franklin (who had to keep a lot of secrets in the 1770s).<br />New Orleans mob boss Carlos Marcello had that saying on a sign on the door to his office at Churchill Farms, Louisiana.Old 1811https://www.blogger.com/profile/09079719195789200332noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post-26336110616040026842015-11-14T22:23:01.799-05:002015-11-14T22:23:01.799-05:00i agree completely. i also hope that i am to unim...i agree completely. i also hope that i am to unimportant for them to care about.pigpen51https://www.blogger.com/profile/01036907880805485560noreply@blogger.com