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Take, for instance, Skype. It has end-to-end encryption, and call are damn hard to intercept due to p2p routing.

Instead of rejoicing, the man forced MS to build a backdoor into it.

The man is glad if your valuable communication can't be stolen by some Chinese spies. But you are a good citizen and have nothing to hide from your own government, right?



Ouch, relevant XKCD: http://xkcd.com/538/


In Russian there's a semi-joking term 'thermorectal cryptanalysys', inspired by a number of gangster stories and movies, which involves a hot soldering iron and... yes, you guessed right.

Beats a compute cluster hands down.

This is why encryption is good against a foreign government, but not as good against your own.


A brute force attack: you apply brute force to the user. A dictionary attack: see brute force attack, but with Oxford's English Dictionary.




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