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To: combjelly who wrote (763639)	1/13/2014 4:56:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1573227

CJ, Now all of the discovered weaknesses are thought to be too difficult to exploit. But that doesn't mean all possible exploits are known. You're talking old school stuff. Security standards and their implementations need to be out in the open so that all possible exploits can be flushed out. Writing your own routines to implement AES, for example, can lead to vulnerabilities that have already been discovered and fixed in open source software. The danger (and the folly) with the NSA's quantum computing project is that they want to get a leg up on breaking the existing standards out there before anyone else does and before the industry moves to standards that can resist quantum computing attacks. Of course, they won't bother to tell anyone else about it, just like they didn't bother to tell anyone that they're hacking anything they feel like just because they can. This is the reality now, and it is a reality that needs to be publicized if we as free citizens value information security and privacy. Yet given how hypocritical the Democrats have been when it comes to this, I have no reason to trust them when it comes to letting government take more and more control over our lives. Bottom line is that this whole anti-corporate hysteria they're trying to whip up means nothing when eventually they'll make corporations wards of the state. Tenchusatsu