Saturday, March 05, 2016
What are they on about?
Convective thought. FBI and Applesatan are engaged in pointless battle over a source of useless information. Clearly more of a pissing contest than a tech dispute.
Meanwhile, GCHQ is quietly telling us where the real action is. Their Christmas puzzle is nominally intended to bring in a few good recruits who wouldn't have answered the official advertisements. The latest puzzle is uniquely puzzling on all levels. The questions don't make sense as questions, and the answers aren't logically connected to the questions. The quiz has a whole lot of pictures and not much math.
What are they on about, as Brits would say? Looking for brains capable of handling steganography. They're tacitly admitting that they have 'back-doors' to all practically usable digital crypt methods. They know it and the adversaries know it. So digital encryption isn't the problem that GCHQ needs to solve. Steganography is the problem.
Labels: Asked and answered, bee
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