A thread for apologies from those who said I was nuts about the NSA [View all]

[hootinholler]

From those right here in this forum who said I was stoopud because I thought the PRISM slides implied that the NSA had cracked commercial encryption. I was told it's AES256 and will take them a brazillian years to crack it and the notion that the NSA had a trick that allows them to decrypt stuff was just nuts. That I was spreading FUD and couldn't possibly know what I am talking about.

Well here's a thread in which you can simply say I'm sorry, and pass along beer and travel money to help me on my way to many adventures.

We still don't know if they have compromised blowfish, but anyone who relies on commercial encryption (which includes all VPN traffic) can consider their stuff compromised.

Now you can also explain to me how someone like the Carlisle Group or the Koch Brothers doesn't have someone just like Snowden except instead of giving stuff to journalists, they simply give stuff to them and keep their mouth shut all the way to the bank.