Re: Privacy Concerns with UbuntuPhone

On 22/04/14 17:48, Thomi Richards wrote:
> Seriously though - you really cannot. You can have the illusion of
> security, and you can prevent casual snooping. You cannot prevent the
> sustained interest of a powerful organisation once they make you a target.

That is an invalid argument.

I can illustrate with an analogy" I cannot be *totally* safe driving my
car.  Does not mean that wearing my seatbelt is an illusion of safety.

Security is a process and it has a cost.  The real question is "what
security can I afford" and is that sufficient?

> If all you care about is prevention of casual snooping, then I think we
> have larger problems to hand than a closed baseband OS.

Not wanting to put words in Strypy's mouth but I think he is concerned
with more than that.  The question is can two people establish a covert
channel of communication that is not accessible to outside observers.
Either the content nor the fact of the channel being opened.

Clearly if some one follows you around with a high definition long
distance observation kit, bugs your house etcetera etcetera you cannot.

Also it would seem it is not possible using the cellular network.  That
would be the conclusion of this thread?

But it is possible in the general case (the TOR project is doing very
interesting work), and technology for doing it is very interesting and
very important right now.

I know of no way of doing it that would not make it clear that I was
communicating some time with some one in a covert manner.  Now that
would be cool.

W

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