Re: [OT] more from Cryptome on NSA, Windows firewals, mail services

["Ringo Kamens" <2600denver@xxxxxxxxx>]

I'm going to take a moment to defend cryptome here. They have been right. A lot. They are a reliable source of information and have been the source for many government leaks. They provide an extremely valuable archive of subversive materials and have been harassed non-stop by intelligence agencies. Is this because they're lying? Nope. It's because they're right. And even cryptome says on their NSA IP Ranges that they don't know whether to trust the source of that information. Also, those IPs are backed (mostly) by evidence such as weird nameservers, etc. Also, we know the NSA and DoJ have engaged in this type of activity in the past such as "working" with Microsoft to secure vista and having their private key inserted into windows versions so they could decrypt things. Cryptome deserves a lot more credit than you are giving them.
Comrade Ringo Kamens

On Dec 23, 2007 11:20 AM, Scott Bennett <bennett@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

    The article is at

http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2007/12/20/nsa-0wnz-popular-firewalls

(Beware of linewrap in URL above.)  Because it's from Cryptome, the same folks
who think the NSA controls large banks of IP addresses in places like Red
China, perhaps the article should be taken with a hefty grain of salt.


                                 Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG
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