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Date:      Tue, 20 Oct 2015 07:58:16 +0000
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        Yonas Yanfa <yonas@fizk.net>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Depreciate and remove gbde
Message-ID:  <96051.1445327896@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: <5625D422.4040402@fizk.net>
References:  <56237623.5010702@fizk.net> <20151019234406.GA88752@cons.org> <CAGHfRMDdEhgUN_Xbw_KkoF_EpPCRn0E1ZXXvX6Ga2NFRKN1gPg@mail.gmail.com> <95431.1445318836@critter.freebsd.dk> <5625D422.4040402@fizk.net>

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In message <5625D422.4040402@fizk.net>, Yonas Yanfa writes:

>> Think human rights activists for instance.
>
>Couldn't they use a fake email address and Tor to communicate 
>anonymously? I'd be surprised if they aren't already.

If you think being a human rights activist is that simple, you
really have *no* idea...

For a lot of them, using Tor would instantly blow their cover.

We're not talking about people who wear Amnesty International
T-shirts or who call themselves "human rights activists" when the
pass through immigration.

We're talking about people who for all practical purposes have a
job as hard or harder than "real" spies.

They do not have the the support and resources of their own government,
they do not have a spare diplomatic passport and a new identity
waiting for them at the embassy, and they certainly cannot afford
those sunglasses.

Getting it wrong on crypto or comms-footprint will at the very least
cost them a year in some Elbonian mud-jail, worst case they die in
a "traffic accident" or "commit suicide" in a turkish air-port
toilet.


>but we should improve the Handbook so gdbe vs. geli 
>strengths and weaknesses are better explained.

By all means go for it!

-- 
Poul-Henning Kamp       | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20
phk@FreeBSD.ORG         | TCP/IP since RFC 956
FreeBSD committer       | BSD since 4.3-tahoe    
Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.



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