Julian Sanchez on the NSA and Surveillance Reform
Julian Sanchez of the Cato Institute has a lengthy audio interview on NSA surveillance and reform. Worth listening to.
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vas pup • September 25, 2014 8:42 AM
Urgent!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
LINUX bug: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-29361794
NSA and other critical infrastructure is vulnerable and needs immediate action to fix!
DB • September 25, 2014 9:54 AM
@vas pup
I don’t get it. If iptables allows no incoming connections at all (as should be the case with “general home users”) then just how will any bash vulnerability allow full remote takeover? Obviously web servers are different.
Steve Friedl • September 25, 2014 9:58 AM
The bash bug thing is a big deal because it can be triggered by merely setting an environment variable, and webservers do this when spawning CGI scripts. Somebody sets a funky query string or a user agent, it gets put in the environment by the webserver, and boom, remote execution from a simple web query.
Big big deal.
Wm • September 29, 2014 8:10 AM
Very interesting, but as long a people are focused upon government and bureaucrats regulating themselves, there will never be any individual privacy and security. Individual privacy and security starts and ends with the individual finding ways of securing his own privacy and security.
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Daniel • September 24, 2014 3:29 PM
He also has a post up regarding the iPhone 8 encryption issue.
http://www.cato.org/blog/old-technopanic-new-ibottles
It is in part a reply to a series of posts by Orin Kerr at the Volokh Conspiracy.
And Orin’s reply is here:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2014/09/24/julian-sanchez-on-encryption-law-enforcement-and-the-balance-of-power/
and his original series of posts end here (with links to the others)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2014/09/22/apples-dangerous-game-part-3-where-do-you-draw-the-line-and-whats-the-privacy-tradeoff/