On Wed, December 13, 2017 6:17 am, [email protected] wrote: ... > If they target *you* individually, yes, they have cheaper means at > their disposal. That's called "rubber hose cryptanalysis"[1] -- not > pretty. Or, as Schneier put it "the NSA is better at breaking knuckles > than at breaking codes". > > Still, for an attack of the Natanz type, they seem to have picked > the Stuxnet way, and you and me might end up as collaterals.
so true. > [1] Or, as XKCD puts it, in a similarly charming way, "$5 wrench > cryptanalysis" > <https://www.xkcd.com/538/> I luv that comic :) cheers. -- x9p | PGP : 0x03B50AF5EA4C8D80 / 5135 92C1 AD36 5293 2BDF DDCC 0DFA 74AE 1524 E7EE
