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2015-06-14 Britain

Britain pulls out spies as Russia, China crack Snowden files

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Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2015-06-14 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 Does this imply they have cracked Snowden's "insurance" file, which would have been AES256 encrypted?

Posted by Bunyip 2015-06-14 01:03|| 2015-06-14 01:03|| Front Page Top

#2
might also mean that snowden is sick of sitting in that embassy, and has sold his insurance file in return for protection from russia and/or china.

Posted by Bunyip 2015-06-14 03:49|| 2015-06-14 03:49|| Front Page Top

#3 Or was that Assange. I find it hard to keep up with what major counter espionage failure is what.

Posted by Bunyip 2015-06-14 05:29|| 2015-06-14 05:29|| Front Page Top

#4 Or was that Assange. I find it hard to keep up with what major counter espionage failure is what.

Posted by Bunyip 2015-06-14 05:29|| 2015-06-14 05:29|| Front Page Top

#5 The CIA, however, just basically abandoned everybody.
Or..., MI6 has told somebody that they've pulled their assets, as a mind game.

Posted by ed in texas 2015-06-14 08:59|| 2015-06-14 08:59|| Front Page Top

#6 Encryption is not magic. It is like a time delay. The better the encryption the more time it takes to get the information. The art of it is to match the appropriate level of difficulty to the importance of keeping the secret.

Since the statute of limitations on charges against Snowden are no where near expired, it looks like he screwed up when he chose his keys.

Sad for him. Worse for us.

Posted by rammer 2015-06-14 19:32|| 2015-06-14 19:32|| Front Page Top

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