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Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2014 00:03:10 -0500
From: tlvp <mPiOsUcB.EtLlLvEp@att.net>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: Wikipedia vs. the Small Screen
Message-ID: <19zzs8mw292z0.r2bctlihcokg$.dlg@40tude.net>
On Sat, 15 Feb 2014 12:07:00 -0500, Barry Margolin re-clarified the issue:
> as people migrate to mobile
> devices, are they going to keep providing content for Wikipedia?
It's my fervent hope that, "as people migrate to mobile devices," the ones
who put all the shoddy misinformation into wiki articles will be
disinclined to continue contributing such tommy-rot, while those who have
serious contributions to make will continue to do so, using more
professional tools than popular mobile devices. Cheers, -- tlvp
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Avant de repondre, jeter la poubelle, SVP.
***** Moderator's Note *****
I think you're confusing the medium with the message.
Bill Horne
Moderator
Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2014 18:06:13 -0500
From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Quotes from Bruce Schneier
Message-ID: <53014465.70502@horne.net>
Here are some quotes from Bruce "Secrets and Lies" Schneier, who is
probably the best-known expert in security in the online world.
I pass them along as food for thought: I transcribed his remarks from an
online recording, so any mistakes are my fault.
Bill
(Remove QRM from my address to write to me directly)
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Quotes from Bruce Schneier's talk about the NSA -
"Our goal should be to leverage the economics, the physics, the math -
make eavesdropping more expensive. We're never going to eliminate
targeted selection. We don't know enough to make computers secure from
a targeted attack - but we can build protocols that are secure against
bulk collection.
...
Usable security is hard - the lesson of twenty years of PGP "One Click
Encryption" is that one click is too much, but we have counteracting
lessons from something like OTR - a really easy to use, powerful chat
encryption program. Or, full disk encryption - very easy to use, no
latency, we don't even notice it.
Right, so more endpoint security, more cloud encryption, especially on
phones, better anonymity tools, better integrated anonymity tools,
more open standards, more open source - this stuff is harder to
subvert; not impossible, but harder.
Target dispersal: I think we were way more secure when there were
100,000 ISPs than when there are 100, simply because there are more
targets.
...
We need the ability to test whether a program does what we think it
does, and nothing else.
...
There's a lot we can do technically, but largely I think this is a
political problem, and it's a difficult political problem. We are now
past the point where simple legal interventions can help. If you look
at some of the things the President is proposing, they focus on
particular collection programs; particular authorities. It's too late
for that: the systems are way too robust, but we sort of know what the
political solution kind of looks like: transparency, oversight,
accountability. This is fundamentally how we secure ourselves when we
have to give institutions power over us. The problem is that laws have
lagged technology."
Quoted from a talk about the NSA, given by Bruce Schneier at M.I.T.
https://d1baxxa0joomi3.cloudfront.net/20010d06fe480b67ae457c7e947b2caf/basic.mp4
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