Per Jessen wrote:
Friday last week, after being ordered by the Court of Justice of the EU, Google opened a portal for deletion or take-down requests. During the first day, about 20.000 requests were received, peaking at to 20 per minute.
Security by obscurity?
In truth, ALL information security is security by obscurity. The whole point of 1024-bit passwords is that they are, by definition, more obscure than, say, 8-bit passwords. You can find an 8-bit password in less than a minute.... these days, probably less than a second. Car locks, likewise, are security by obscurity -- which of the hundreds of different key-profiles (hills and valleys) will set the pins in the correct position for the tumbler to turn? When I was a student at the U.S. Army Signal School, one thing stuck with me in a block on using cryptographic methods: ALL code-systems can be broken, given enough traffic to eavesdrop on, and enough time to decode them. The goal then, is to NOT use "an unbreakable code" because no such thing exists. They point is to use a code system which is sufficiently difficult to break, such that the encrypted information will no longer be useful by the time the opposing forces decrypt it. Do not use a code which is good for 24-hours (when used to encrypt small pieces of numerical data) to encrypt a long message which must remain secret for a year or more. Likewise, do not use a method which will provide security for decades to encrypt information which is of value for only a couple of hours (such as the map coordinates of where vehicles should meet for distribution of the next meal and beverages). -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org