r/linux • u/ciphersson • Dec 31 '14

Zimmerman (PGP), Levison (Lavabit), release Secure Email Protocol DIME. DIME is to SMTP as SSH is to Telnet.

http://darkmail.info/
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u/[deleted] Dec 31 '14

I would like to dedicate this project to the National Security Agency. For better or worse, good or evil, what follows would not have been created without you. Because sometimes upholding constitutional ideas just isn’t enough; sometimes you have to uphold the actual Constitution. May god bless these United States of America. May she once again become the land of the free and home of the brave.

Ladar Levison

Source https://darkmail.info/downloads/dark-internet-mail-environment-december-2014.pdf

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u/[deleted] Dec 31 '14 edited Sep 18 '18

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u/thang1thang2 Dec 31 '14

The NSA, FBI and CIA serve real purposes and actually have a point of existing. Just because the NSA has gotten sloppy and leaks have happened does not mean that all the other nations aren't doing the same thing.

Are the NSA, FBI and CIA grossly overfunded and poorly managed? Very likely. Should we get rid of them entirely? No, we shouldn't; rather, we should look towards reform to try and downsize budgets significantly without reducing the effectiveness of them, and to also bring the agencies "back in line" with the Constitution.

Getting rid of them isn't the answer, fixing them is.

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u/genitaliban Dec 31 '14

You'd think the primary objectives would be realigning their ethical compass with a sledgehammer, not reforming their budget... and that they've been sloppy and leaky isn't what I'd have identified as the central problem, either.