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SlvrZeta
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Use PGP
#7418513 - 09/16/07 11:46 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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Use PGP/TC if you want to do secret messages.
Never use a phone.
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Seuss
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Re: Use PGP [Re: SlvrZeta]
#7418862 - 09/17/07 05:19 AM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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The security of PGP is based upon the assumption that large numbers are difficult to factor.
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Robo
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Re: Use PGP [Re: Seuss]
#7419897 - 09/17/07 02:24 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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Seuss said: The security of PGP is based upon the assumption that large numbers are difficult to factor.
but it is safe for the most part, right? I put a lot of faith in PGP encryption, hope I haven't for nothing.
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Seuss
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Re: Use PGP [Re: Robo]
#7419968 - 09/17/07 02:39 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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For secrets that you want to keep from LEO or civilians, yes, it is fine. For secrets that you want to keep from a government that has unlimited resources... maybe, maybe not. However, if any government is able to factor large numbers easily, they would never ever admit it, so again, from a typical person standpoint, we are fine. I started to become concerned about PGP when the government quite throwing a huge fit about it... read between the lines. 
(The government I am speaking of is the cloak and dagger government, not the stuff that normal people ever see...)
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Robo
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Re: Use PGP [Re: Seuss]
#7420276 - 09/17/07 03:58 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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hmmmm, not good. You just can't have any privacy these days, it seems like the only way to keep info safe(if you really want it safe) is to tell someone face to face. Otherwise, it seems like big brother can pretty much do whatever the hell he wants to. 
regular email can be intercepted, phones can be tapped and recorded, and they can probably decrypt PGP messages if they wanted to, no doubt. Perhaps I'm just a little bit paranoid, but I like my privacy.
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implee
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Re: Use PGP [Re: Robo]
#7422359 - 09/18/07 03:37 AM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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Hey, if COPS are gathering info on your its better to have gpg/pgp then nothing, but if they want the info federally they will get it...
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Crystal G



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Re: Use PGP [Re: Robo]
#7425737 - 09/18/07 08:56 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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Adagio said: hmmmm, not good. You just can't have any privacy these days, it seems like the only way to keep info safe(if you really want it safe) is to tell someone face to face.
hahaha! you mean face to face, in a secluded area, with blasting music in the background, while you mutter it in soft breath in their ear.
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Alan Rockefeller
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> regular email can be intercepted
All regular network traffic can be intercepted.
Everyone should try out the Wireshark packet analyzer, which works on any OS and is free, to see what I mean.
> phones can be tapped and recorded
Not many people talk over phones anymore. I do get annoyed when I let someone borrow my phone and overhear some obvious illegal activity.
> and they can probably decrypt PGP messages if they wanted to, no doubt.
Very unlikely. Luckily for them, most criminals don't bother with PGP. When the cops/feds do find someone using PGP, they don't try to crack it. Instead they sneak into your house and put a keystroke logger on to your keyboard, and wait until you type in your password. You can spot them if you look - It looks like a little adapter on the keyboard port on the back of your computer. Of course this trick doesn't work with laptops.
If they were able to crack PGP, they would never use any of the information against you because once it became public info that they were able to do this, people would switch to something else.
> Perhaps I'm just a little bit paranoid, but I like my privacy.
If you are still paranoid, you can use PGP and another less well known encryption product, so they have to crack both of them.
I use GPG rather than PGP. GPG is free and 100% PGP compatible.
Also when you install the new versions of Debian linux, it asks you if you want to set up an encrypted volume. This is EXTREMELY ADVISABLE and will thwart 99.999% of all forensic efforts (as long as you set up the screensaver to lock your screen after a few minutes of activity, which is set that way by default on Debian). I can not overstate the importance of this - The computer is the first thing they seize because it is always full of evidence.
The first thing they do when they sieze a computer is image the drive, the second thing is to go through the recent documents and browser cache. Encrypted filesystems will halt any of that nonsense.
On Mac OSX you can turn on filevault for the same protection, and there are ways to do it on Windows, PGPdisk would probably be a good solution.
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pummel
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^ actually on most new laptops there is a hard device that is built into the laptop itself and is a hardware key logger so even if you have a newer laptop they can just access this little memory chip to analyze all of your data input. Of course this is only if your laptop is confiscated.
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