cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/5196551
A decade after Snowden exposed NSA’s mass surveillance in cooperation with the British GCHQ, only about 1 percent of the documents have been published, but three major facts can finally be revealed thanks to a doctoral thesis in applied cryptography by Jacob Appelbaum.
The possibility (reality?) of CPU backdoors which make it possible for them to bypass cryptography and hence encryption completely is a full game changer. This is a thing that I was only suspecting but now we have more concrete evidence that this actually happens.
And I was called paranoid for this ^^
The moment hardware DRM become a real thing I suspected it too, very bitter about my fears being confirmed as is, but here we are being ‘paranoid’ and being right about it all this time.
Thanks so much for crossposting this. This is dismal news, indeed, and I wondered what brand of Jake. He was harassed every time he traveled internationally, by the US government. To say we are literally a fascist nation is no hyperbole, by any stretch of the imagination. And yet, most of my compatriots would deny anything published by Snowden or Applebaum in 2013, let alone now. A pity there is no god to lend help and that we refuse to help ourselves.