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Re: Does Hotmail, Gmail, and Yahoo Mail cooperate with the NS A?


From: "Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 19:14:49 GMT

I give you:

http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/inqtel/

- ferg


-- Florian Weimer <fw () deneb enyo de> wrote:

couple of hours later, no issues.  does DCS1000 / $TLA_spy_tech
support Thawte/Verisign certificate MITM?  i'd really like to know how
often the big three cert co's cooperate...

Cooperation from CAs is not *that* helpful because you risk detection
when you swap public keys in transit.

OTOH, providing services to the intelligence community is an
interesting funding model for a search engine or a webmail provider. 8-)


--
"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/


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