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In reply to the discussion: Greenwald interview: NSA cannot break the code on Miranda's thumb drives. [View all]Recursion
(56,582 posts)196. But the claim was the *purpose* of the gradual releases was to get them to lie
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Greenwald interview: NSA cannot break the code on Miranda's thumb drives. [View all]
Luminous Animal
Aug 2013
OP
Let's assume that Moore's law remains constant another 20 years (it most likely won't).
EOTE
Aug 2013
#82
IRC has been around since I started...long before the WWW even existed!
VanillaRhapsody
Aug 2013
#103
LOL, me too. I miss the old modem noise. It seemed so cool. When I got a cable modem I thought I....
Logical
Aug 2013
#153
" Just ask the folks that sold the framework for Windows to Bill Gates"? What the hell....
Logical
Aug 2013
#152
"The full actual computation - checking each key to see if you have found a solution"
Aerows
Aug 2013
#175
What information do you have that some of the world's smartest security experts don't?
EOTE
Aug 2013
#5
Do you really think those massive buildings going up are to house hard drives?
railsback
Aug 2013
#179
Yada Yada Yada, what the hell, since the files was stolen from NSA who would they think would not be
Thinkingabout
Aug 2013
#17
Are you kidding me? They know every key stroke Snowden made while her husband as at NSA, they
Thinkingabout
Aug 2013
#72
Since i have not seen frequent news reports out of the NSA in the years they have been in operation
Thinkingabout
Aug 2013
#94
Yes I know about the mountain out of a mole hill but an ant hill but a regular ant hill is smaller
Thinkingabout
Aug 2013
#102
Guess I am familiar with fire ant hills, are you familiar with common red a t hills. Which is
Thinkingabout
Aug 2013
#110
I was referring to the size of the ant hills, the common red ant hill is small and shallow,
Thinkingabout
Aug 2013
#113
would you say the common ant hill is larger or smaller than fire ant hill?
Thinkingabout
Aug 2013
#118
Not in my area but this is a classic example of making a mountain out of an ant hill.
Thinkingabout
Aug 2013
#124
Memo to NSA: Snowden copied the files. You already have them. You don't need to break a code.
Tierra_y_Libertad
Aug 2013
#21
So they can run a spellcheck on them before some whistle blower relaeases them?
Tierra_y_Libertad
Aug 2013
#24
I'm sure he got as much as possible and has the non-relevant stuff safely stashed away somewhere
Leopolds Ghost
Aug 2013
#138
We need more whistle blowers and hackers to help the NSA check and edit their files.
Tierra_y_Libertad
Aug 2013
#36
When rubber hose cryptanalysis becomes common, the NSA will truly be the American Gestapo. n/t
backscatter712
Aug 2013
#66
I am curious, these Snowden/Greenwald haters here seem upset that they came out with this!
Dustlawyer
Aug 2013
#58
Uh, I'm here to debate you for the "fame" and "fortune" and I'm related to neither.
Aerows
Aug 2013
#137
"by which I mean that everyone’s communications electronically will be collected, stored, analyzed
deurbano
Aug 2013
#90
Why are these files encrypted anyway? Aren't they supposed to be leaked and released?
arcane1
Aug 2013
#76
Then what's the point of taking the info in the first place? That's what I don't get...
arcane1
Aug 2013
#86
In that case, it sounds like Greenwald and Snowden also don't know what they have.
arcane1
Aug 2013
#151
But the claim was the *purpose* of the gradual releases was to get them to lie
Recursion
Aug 2013
#196
The Guardian, the Washington Post, Der Spiegal, and the NY Times are not done with
Luminous Animal
Aug 2013
#115
So the point is "feeling more powerful than politicians" rather than "the truth"?
Recursion
Aug 2013
#162
I'm a bit unclear why Greenwald is relying on thumb drives in the first place to get data to point B
Leopolds Ghost
Aug 2013
#135
Well...unless your husband is such a dumbass he carries the password on paper
jmowreader
Aug 2013
#203