From: Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell@gmail.com>
To: Drak <drak@zikula.org>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Dedicated server for bitcoin.org, your thoughts?
Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2013 05:48:06 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAAS2fgTmWRMxYweu3sNn_X7grgjUqTQujM-DbZRxG_YMZnD=7g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANAnSg3nPhrk2k=yDKf39AuBQnSuTWJbgANdMhGe=soiOy0NTw@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 5:39 AM, Drak <drak@zikula.org> wrote:
> The NSA has the ability, right now to change every download of bitcoin-qt,
> on the fly and the only cure is encryption.
Please cut it out with the snake oil pedaling. This is really over the
top. You're invoking the NSA as the threat here? Okay. The NSA can
trivially compromise an HTTPS download site: even ignoring the CA
insecurity, and government run CAs certificate authorities issue CA
certs to random governments and corporations for dataloss prevention
purposes. Not to mention unparalleled access to exploits.
The downloads are protected by something far stronger than SSL
already, which might even have a chance against the NSA. Actual
signatures of the downloads with offline keys.
I'm all pro-SSL and all that, but you are— piece by piece— really
convincing me that it produces an entirely false sense of security
which is entirely unjustified.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-12-31 13:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-12-08 1:17 [Bitcoin-development] Dedicated server for bitcoin.org, your thoughts? Saïvann Carignan
2013-12-08 3:38 ` Odinn Cyberguerrilla
2013-12-08 9:03 ` Saïvann Carignan
2013-12-08 12:37 ` Luke-Jr
2013-12-08 19:16 ` Drak
2013-12-08 19:25 ` Gregory Maxwell
2013-12-08 20:28 ` Mike Hearn
2013-12-08 20:40 ` Gregory Maxwell
2013-12-08 20:51 ` Drak
2013-12-08 21:01 ` Luke-Jr
2013-12-08 21:11 ` Drak
2013-12-08 23:51 ` theymos
2013-12-09 0:06 ` Taylor Gerring
2013-12-09 6:29 ` Jeremy Spilman
2013-12-09 10:54 ` Roy Badami
2013-12-10 9:18 ` Odinn Cyberguerrilla
2013-12-08 21:09 ` Gregory Maxwell
2013-12-08 21:16 ` Saïvann Carignan
2013-12-08 21:58 ` Roy Badami
2013-12-08 23:03 ` Mike Hearn
2013-12-09 5:32 ` Jeff Garzik
2013-12-08 22:44 ` Gavin Andresen
2013-12-08 23:48 ` Saïvann Carignan
2013-12-08 23:18 ` Luke-Jr
2013-12-08 23:29 ` Patrick
2013-12-08 21:46 ` Mark Friedenbach
2013-12-08 20:40 ` Drak
2013-12-08 20:50 ` Gregory Maxwell
2013-12-08 21:07 ` Drak
2013-12-08 21:14 ` Gregory Maxwell
2013-12-08 22:27 ` Robert McKay
2013-12-12 20:51 ` Adam Back
2013-12-31 13:39 ` Drak
2013-12-31 13:48 ` Gregory Maxwell [this message]
2013-12-31 13:59 ` Mike Hearn
2013-12-31 14:18 ` Gregory Maxwell
2013-12-31 14:23 ` Mike Hearn
2013-12-31 21:25 ` Jeremy Spilman
2013-12-31 21:33 ` Matt Corallo
2014-01-01 10:02 ` Jeremy Spilman
2014-01-01 11:37 ` Wladimir
2014-01-01 15:10 ` Mike Hearn
2014-01-01 22:15 ` Mike Hearn
2014-01-02 19:49 ` Jorge Timón
2013-12-31 14:05 ` Benjamin Cordes
2014-01-03 5:45 ` Troy Benjegerdes
2014-01-03 9:59 ` Drak
2014-01-03 11:22 ` Tier Nolan
2014-01-03 13:09 ` Adam Back
2014-01-03 17:38 ` Troy Benjegerdes
2014-01-03 18:21 ` Jorge Timón
2014-01-04 1:43 ` Troy Benjegerdes
2013-12-08 10:00 ` Drak
2013-12-08 12:39 ` Luke-Jr
2013-12-08 16:51 ` Gregory Maxwell
2013-12-08 16:08 ` Wladimir
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