CPAhem

With the news that the NSA is tapping Google's internal fibre links, local encryption of Google is the way to go.

The problem is that it makes it harder to use, and to share, especially on multiple devices.

Perhaps the innocent days of the early Internet are over, and we now always need to consider that Big Brother is watching.

Lavamail?

It would be interesting to see the technical details of how this was done.

It depends on your point of view:

Does government exist to serve the people, or do people exist to serve Washington?

yes - survival of the noisiest: talk first, think later.

I hear what you guys are saying. But perhaps by targeting those who use encryption, the NSA is trying to intimidate us into not using it and make their lives easier?

Slide 23: "Show me all the Microsoft Excel spreadsheets containing MAC addresses coming out of Iraq so I can perform network mapping"

Does MS Excel store your MAC address in the xlsx file?

Since you can already get full ITX atom boards for around $60 on ebay, this makes little sense to me.

http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_sacat=0&_nkw=atom+motherboar...

Interesting tool, but using tools like HTTPS everywhere, Syncdocs to encipher Google, or Truecrypt or EncFS for local volumes might just attract attention from the NSA.

It is better not to stand out from the crowd and be targeted.

http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/02/from-encryption-to-d...

might be a honeypot for leakers?

More detailed analysis and original documents http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/07/12/telstras-deal-with-the-d...

The truth is that we'll never know.

Maybe in 10 years some whistleblower will come out and admit, but probably not. The way Snowden is being treated you'd have to be crazy to do it now...

Your tax $ at work...

This is a good idea, and looks promising. Running it going on other browsers than Chrome would be nice.

Is there any way of getting it compatible with the Syncdocs program which does local machine encryption of Google Drive files? It looks like Syncdocs does AES256

http://www.syncdocs.com/encryption-settings-help/

For "at-rest" Google Drive encryption syncdocs works well. No unencrypted files are ever stored on Google Drive.

http://www.syncdocs.com/syncdocs-screenshots/how-to-encrypt-...

It is a great idea. I've heard of many companies that give small (~$500) bonuses for successful hires.

The unintended consequences listed here are interesting as like any system, people will learn how to game it.

Might be why Google is upgrading all SSL certs to 2048 bit

http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com.au/2013/05/changes-...

Features are what sells products, the cost is that they make the product more complex (and add to the cost).

Simple products are often easy to use, and document, which is one of the reasons Apple does so well.

What did your bitcoin bots trade?

Businesses are way better than Joe Consumer, they need less support and pay more.

On that subject, stay away from "free" plans, unless you really need freemium marketing - the support for free users is usually the most.

I agree.

Most attacks on secure systems involve attacking the engineering - the implementation of the system, rather than even attempting to break the crypto, even if it is only DES.