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Re: [OT] Re: How do you make your life secure (software based)?



Jochen Schulz <ml@well-adjusted.de>:
>  s. keeling:
> > Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>:
> >> 
> >>  e) Skype seems secure, but the Germans[1] might have cracked
> >>     it and be blowing smoke in order to get Bad Guys to use
> >>     encrypted Skype,
> >>
> >>  [1] http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=3D5&objectid=3D104=77899
> >
> > "Might have cracked it and be blowing smoke?"  That's not how I read
> > that.  It reads here like the German police are just as averse to
> > Gestapo tactics as is the rest of Germany, and they're intent on
> > staying well into "letter of the law" territory (as well as being
> > _seen to be there_), with keen eyes on "intent of the law."
> 
>  I am not sure whether I understand you correctly, but if you are saying

Sorry, I was merely commenting on that article.  I've seen and read
quite a bit of recent German police intentions, as you've so well
documented below, but this article looked a lot different.  Perhaps
the policeman being interviewed was uninformed of the party line?

>  To appease critics, there are plans to deposit the source code of the

Recently, the British discovered they had a judge who didn't know what
a website was.

Excellent report, thanks.


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