Re: Skype will be open sourced
noauth
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On Nov 4, 4:52 am, Noob <r...@127.0.0.1> wrote:
> Tom St Denis wrote:
> > Anonymous wrote:
>
> >> I hope someone in this NG will take a look at the Skype encryption
> >> because I have my doubts about it.
>
> > Nothing you say is of any value to any government.
>
> Right. And cryptography is pointless, because honest, decent,
> hard-working people have nothing to hide anyway!
>
> /me rolls eyes
>
> How could you possibly know what is and what is not of value to the
> hundreds of governmental entities of the world?
I never said crypto is pointless.
Just in the grand scheme of things I'm more worried about some person
on the net sniffing out my CC [for example] than I am of the
government reading my emails or tapping my phone.
So long as I pay my taxes I'm sure the Canadian government is
perfectly happy to let me be a statistic.
Tom
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Well, that's the point, isn't it? As long as you keep your trap shut
and do as they tell you they'll say: 'He's a little guy, let him be',
but as soon as you open your YAP and start criticizing them or worse
still, become a political opponent, they'll start digging and reading
your e-mail, listen to your phone conversations and your instant
messaging for smut to smear you with.
And the U.S. government agencies are probably profiling every person in
the world, only the ones on the Internet off course, to determine if
they have terrorist or anarchistic tendencies. I'm not sure about you
but I find it dispicable that I'm being investigated without a judge
looking at evidence and branding me a suspect. That's the PARADIGM
SHIFT that has occurred in the last decade: in the past you could only
be investigated if you were a suspect, today EVERYONE'S a suspect ALL
THE TIME. I believe we should fight this and the only way I know how to
is with encryption. I urge people to encrypt ALL their traffic and
websites.