Google Warns Gmail Users About State-Sponsored Attacks

[willard]

[citation][nom]jkflipflop98[/nom]. .. except they have unlimited budget and the ability to "forcefully hire" the best hackers known. Either you work for us, or you rot in a cell and never see the sun again.[/citation]
And again, this is still not magic. Every hacker is subject to the same basic facts. Encryption works and is extremely difficult to circumvent. Strong passwords are extremely difficult to brute force. Two stage authentication is extremely difficult to bypass.

All I'm saying is that securing your accounts is a good thing. Why are all the conspiracy nutjobs so up in arms over this?

 

[blazorthon]

[citation][nom]eddieroolz[/nom]Never mind the fact that biggest threat is Google itself, but sure...[/citation]

Google might whore your data out, but I don't think that Google would use your data to attack you. Farmers probably don't want to kill off their livestock before they've gotten their money's worth out of them.

 

[blazorthon]

[citation][nom]jkflipflop98[/nom]. .. except they have unlimited budget and the ability to "forcefully hire" the best hackers known. Either you work for us, or you rot in a cell and never see the sun again.[/citation]

Hackers are still just hackers. They must hack their way in. If you have encryption that can't be broken due to stupid means (bad password, very weak encryption, password isn't kept safe, etc. etc.) such as a good AES 256 encryption or better, they still have to brute-force it and that takes a lot of processing power.

 

[willard]

[citation][nom]blazorthon[/nom]Hackers are still just hackers. They must hack their way in. If you have encryption that can't be broken due to stupid means (bad password, very weak encryption, password isn't kept safe, etc. etc.) such as a good AES 256 encryption or better, they still have to brute-force it and that takes a lot of processing power.[/citation]
Get out of here with that nonsense. Don't you know commenting in the news threads isn't allowed unless you're going to turn it into a moronic screed against the big bad government?

 

[blazorthon]

[citation][nom]willard[/nom]Get out of here with that nonsense. Don't you know commenting in the news threads isn't allowed unless you're going to turn it into a moronic screed against the big bad government?[/citation]

I'm as paranoid about the government's intentions as the next guy, but at least I can be rational about it and their limitations. jkflipflop98 is making seemingly unfounded claims that don't even make sense when you actually think about them.

 

[dreadllokz]

You should not fear if you are not a pedophile, terrorist, murderer, drug dealer or a thug! Im all of those things, so I'm disconnecting right now =S

 

[thecolorblue]

Itms astonishing that the supposedly tech savvy folk on this site seem to be totally ignorant to the fact that the NSA already has full text copies of all email transmitted within the united states and have had such since shortly after 9-11...

there is no need for hacking... email is not generally encrypted during transmission. ignorance is bliss i guess

 

[freggo]

Governments increase their scooping, we increase our encryption...

 

[blazorthon]

[citation][nom]thecolorblue[/nom]Itms astonishing that the supposedly tech savvy folk on this site seem to be totally ignorant to the fact that the NSA already has full text copies of all email transmitted within the united states and have had such since shortly after 9-11...there is no need for hacking... email is not generally encrypted during transmission. ignorance is bliss i guess[/citation]

The whole point was that if you did encrypt it, then they would need to de-crypt it in order to read it. It's not like that isn't an option.

 

[thecolorblue]

[citation][nom]blazorthon[/nom]The whole point was that if you did encrypt it, then they would need to de-crypt it in order to read it. It's not like that isn't an option.[/citation]

I see what you're saying