cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/5196551

A decade after Snowden exposed NSA’s mass surveillance in cooperation with the British GCHQ, only about 1 percent of the documents have been published, but three major facts can finally be revealed thanks to a doctoral thesis in applied cryptography by Jacob Appelbaum.

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    10 months ago

    The possibility (reality?) of CPU backdoors which make it possible for them to bypass cryptography and hence encryption completely is a full game changer. This is a thing that I was only suspecting but now we have more concrete evidence that this actually happens.

    And I was called paranoid for this ^^

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      10 months ago

      The moment hardware DRM become a real thing I suspected it too, very bitter about my fears being confirmed as is, but here we are being ‘paranoid’ and being right about it all this time.

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    10 months ago

    Thanks so much for crossposting this. This is dismal news, indeed, and I wondered what brand of Jake. He was harassed every time he traveled internationally, by the US government. To say we are literally a fascist nation is no hyperbole, by any stretch of the imagination. And yet, most of my compatriots would deny anything published by Snowden or Applebaum in 2013, let alone now. A pity there is no god to lend help and that we refuse to help ourselves.