Posts by nzlemming
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Hard News: The Real Threat, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
Random is statistically impossible as the input will always out-weigh the output.
Rich's comment aside, perfect randomness is not required. Random enough adds enough complexity to make it secure.
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Russel Norman reports:
The new information we forced Key to release this afternoon. shows that the PM’s office had access to the full Emails between the journalist Andrea Vance and MP Peter Dunne, without their consent. Link below.
Backgound: On Thursday in the House I forced Joyce to admit to the existence of 39 emails about the Key Spying on Journalist scandal. I asked him to table them, he wouldn’t but said I could write to him to get them. Which of course I did, so the clock was ticking when they had to be released, so they dropped them tonight. -
Hard News: The Real Threat, in reply to Sacha,
Farrar has your answer, on Danyl’s post – outsourcing. A beautiful parallel to getting the GCSB to spy on behalf of the SIS. Different accountabilities you say? What could possibly go wrong?
#tui
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Something that occurred to me a few minutes ago. If Key ordered that Ministers be investigated, why was the Parliamentary Service involved at all? Ministers are served by Ministerial Services, an arm of DIA (largely outsourced). The have separate email addresses (e.g. j.key@ministers.govt.nz) which they use, as I know from doing OIA requests (which is probably why that log they refer to is empty). So why go through the Parliamentary Service for Dunne’s emails?
EDIT Admittedly, they use the same telephone system.
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Hard News: The Real Threat, in reply to Chris Waugh,
What a curious article. On the one hand:
Major international syndicates all appear on the top 20 criminal target lists of Australia, New Zealand, the United States, Britain and Canada. “The results were telling,” Clare said. “We are all targeting the same people.”
Well, what a hairy surprise, not. It seems that it never occurred to the economic geniuses that, when you encourage globalisation and a global economy, it affects every part of global existence including crime.
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Hard News: The Real Threat, in reply to BenWilson,
Or perhaps encrypt pictures of kittens. Lots of really big pictures with keys just long enough that they could be cracked by wasting a few hours of some computer’s time out there.
Steganography, with junk data! I think I have a new hobby ;-)
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Hard News: The Real Threat, in reply to Kumara Republic,
As a mate said on Facebook:
If you've got nothing to hide, can I have your curtains?"
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Hard News: The Real Threat, in reply to Sacha,
I can’t see how Datacom could accidentally pull Vance’s phone records as well unless she was specifically named – by whoever in Parliamentary Services manages their ongoing relationship.
I can't see why a journalist - any journalist - would use Parliament's phone system rather than his/her own cellphone. Are Parliament running their own cell site and logging all the calls?
What a shame someone can’t OIA the service request.
Yes. Isn't it? It's a huge hole in the OIA that the Parlaimentary offices are not included.
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There’s a quote in the comments of that Farrar page:
This government has destroyed this country. Every soldier who sacrificed themselves for New Zealand must be rolling in their graves. Yesterday democracy died in New Zealand. It is bordering on treason!. How dare Labour think that they can do this!
I will stop at nothing to ensure that I do all I can to make sure these authoritairian bastards are thrown out next year.
I doubt that sdm knew how prophetic his hyperbole would prove…
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Hard News: The United States of Surveillance?, in reply to David Hood,
What you can know about from tracking relationships (or as it is being called “metadata”) is huge.
That's what those of us who do genealogy live for ;-)