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Re: Revealed: NSA program collects 'nearly everything a user does on the internet'

From: Chris Boyd <cboyd () gizmopartners com>
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 10:50:09 -0500


On Jul 31, 2013, at 10:26 AM, "<<\"tei''>>>" <oscar.vives () gmail com> <oscar.vives () gmail com> wrote:

- Have I read it correctly.  Can then break into a vpn connection,
then leach documents that a german in pakistan is sending to his
office in germany?


I would guess that it's becasuse many VPN services still support PPTP which can be attacked as outlined here:
http://www.schneier.com/paper-pptpv2.html

--Chris

Current thread:

Revealed: NSA program collects 'nearly everything a user does on the internet' Warren Bailey (Jul 31)
- Re: Revealed: NSA program collects 'nearly everything a user does on the internet' <<"tei''>>> (Jul 31)
  - Re: Revealed: NSA program collects 'nearly everything a user does on the internet' Chris Boyd (Jul 31)
    - Re: Revealed: NSA program collects 'nearly everything a user does on the internet' Ken Gilmour (Jul 31)
    - Re: Revealed: NSA program collects 'nearly everything a user does on the internet' Warren Bailey (Jul 31)
- Re: Revealed: NSA program collects 'nearly everything a user does on the internet' Jorge Amodio (Jul 31)
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- Revealed: NSA program collects 'nearly everything a user does on the internet' Marsh Ray (Jul 31)