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No doubt the securicrats will come up with a blanket solution like any unauthorized person who uses Tor or encryption is by definition a terrorist/communist/hacker on the principle that if you have something you want to hide from them you are probably up to no good. Kind of plays havoc with commercial security though. I can see corporates putting their most sensitive documents on standalone PCs in future and distributing by paper - although the NSA had a hidden scanner on the fax machine used by the EU for sensitive documents to spy on fax transmissions.

Distributing porn using a backdoor to Wordpress means you don't even have to have your own processing power - but an Irishman is currently awaiting extradition to the US for doing precisely that.

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by Frank Schnittger (mail Frankschnittger at hot male dotty communists) on Wed Aug 14th, 2013 at 03:03:00 PM EST
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No doubt the securicrats will come up with a blanket solution like any unauthorized person who uses Tor or encryption is by definition a terrorist/communist/hacker on the principle that if you have something you want to hide from them you are probably up to no good.

Which is why it is important to spread the skills. Help enough family and friends and you are building a pretty large stack of needles in the bigger stack of hay.

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by A swedish kind of death on Wed Aug 14th, 2013 at 04:00:10 PM EST
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that could be less successful than the NSA hoped, earlier this week there was a report that certain  photocopier and scanner companies products were misinterpreting numbers, and so may well have been storing documents with incorrect digits.

so you never know they might have all the wrong data.

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by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Wed Aug 14th, 2013 at 04:09:17 PM EST
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It would be sweet were the NSA backdoor software found to be responsible for the data corruption.

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by ARGeezer (ARGeezer a in a circle eurotrib daught com) on Wed Aug 14th, 2013 at 09:09:14 PM EST
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It seems that it was image compression being used out of context: on a photograph, taking similar bits and reusing isn't a big issue. On a document it is. 1 <> l <> ! <> i <> |
by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Thu Aug 15th, 2013 at 05:38:34 AM EST
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Knuckleheads!

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by ARGeezer (ARGeezer a in a circle eurotrib daught com) on Thu Aug 15th, 2013 at 09:47:27 AM EST
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