Yup, win with technology alone is just a nerd fantasy.
On Dec 30, 2013 2:15 PM, "Manfred Karrer" <mk@???> wrote:

> Probably many of you have already seen that video of Jacob Applebaum at
> the CCC:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0w36GAyZIA
>
> I was not so much suprised by many NSA activities we heard about in that
> year, but that is really, really SHOCKING!
>
> That changes for me also the view I had about Bitcoins security. The NSA
> can by 100% break the system if they want (they have 1000s of attack
> vectors). I was not so sure about that before.
> So as we cannot fix all the technical weaknesses leading to this digital
> 1984 nightmare in what we are living, we certainly need to fight also on
> the political side.
> I was thinking before technology could just make old school politics or
> power structures obsolete, but I am not so sure about that anymore. They
> have created with the NSA a monster in the worst sense of that word, and to
> beat them on the technological side seems to me naive (after I saw that
> video).
>
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