David Shaw wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 01:15:23PM -0800, Raygene wrote: >> >> While discussing GnuPG on MacNN forum, someone posted the following >> message: >> >> Tonight I met this guy who works for an internet security company. they >> help >> governments/law agencies, what he told me is so depressing. apparently, >> big >> brother has the decryption keys for most internet algorithms, they >> basically >> can record the information and decrypt it in %95 of the cases... I am no >> security/privacy expert, but its shocking to know that. The guy did not >> want >> to speak much, but he said that mac is the most secure platform from all >> operating systems?..... does anyone know more about this? >> >> Does this hold water or was that so-called security expert full of it? > >>> On the whole, the words of some random guy on some random web page >>> quoting some other random guy that he just happened to meet might not >>> be your best source of information. > > Thanks David, > > I do admit that this is all random and anyone can claim to be a so-called > expert on something or other (then again, there are the know-it-alls and > phonies) but how true is that claim? We all know that the various > "Agencies" have super computers and some of the best programmers and > internet security experts in the country, have you ever heard of some > agency actually cracking a lot of people's encrypted emails or files? Is > encryption as safe as claimed? > > Newbie paranoia, just installed MacPG and playing around with it... :-/ > > Cheers, > Gene > > > _______________________________________________ > Gnupg-users mailing list > Gnupg-users@gnupg.org > http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users > >
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