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In reply to the discussion: Thank You Edward Snowden, They Are Now On Their Knees, Begging...Well Done. [View all]Titonwan
(785 posts)than fleas on a bloodhound. This bullshit stops now- Edward Snowden owns NONE of the information he GAVE to Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras. It's military grade encryption (AES 256 bit) on thumb drives that would literally take billions of years to crack code by 'brute force' decoding tactics. (Yes, there's math to this-- "As shown above, even with a supercomputer, it would take 1 billion billion years to crack the 128-bit AES key* using brute force attack. This is more than the age of the universe (13.75 billion years). If one were to assume that a computing system existed that could recover a DES key in a second, it would still take that same machine approximately 149 trillion years to crack a 128-bit AES key." http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1279619)
Those of you authoritarians that claim to be 'democrats' have just revealed how much you really think about 'the people'. Not fuckin' much, methinks.
*Note: you notice he's describing '128 bit' AES- 256 bit is exponentially bigger than that! You do the math