On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 10:26 AM, Tanveer Singh web@tanveer.in wrote:

On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 9:40 AM, Supreet Sethi supreet.sethi@gmail.comwrote:

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It does provide safe haven for parking

You can use ssh tunnels for secure communication with your criminal

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friends.Does it make SSH evil?

Excellent points, both. I think government security policies are based on these premises: 1. We can separate good people from bad people. 2. We can stop bad people by punishing them. 3. To punish bad people, we need to overpower them with superior force.

The problem is, all these premises are false! Anything you use, a "terrorist" uses. Chairs, desks, computers, currencies ( both digital and non-digital ), weapons etc. We engage in an arms race to develop stronger crypto, deadlier weapons, and we think that this will help us overpower the bad people. Yet, sooner or later, everything you develop, falls into the "wrong" hands. And the consequences of your shiny new technology falling into the "wrong" hands are increasingly drastic.

This is the age of Weapons of Mass Destruction. The "wrong" people already have all kinds of deadly power.

It is time we stop at this precipice, and re-evaluate where the weapons race is taking us. Perhaps it is asking too much for Obama to have hugged Osama and disarmed him that way.

NSA: "Yes, we scan!"

Cheers,

- Ashwin.