Deutsche Telekom Moves Email Traffic In-Country In Wake of PRISM 180
kdryer39 writes "Germany's leading telecom provider announced on Friday that it will only use German servers to handle any email traffic over its systems, citing privacy concerns arising from the recent PRISM leak and its 'public outrage over U.S. spy programs accessing citizens' private messages.' In a related move, DT has also announced that they will be providing email services over SSL to further secure their customers' communications. Sandro Gaycken, a professor of cyber security at Berlin's Free University, said 'This will make a big difference...Of course the NSA could still break in if they wanted to, but the mass encryption of emails would make it harder and more expensive for them to do so.'"
This makes sense (Score:5, Insightful)
Germany is one of the hotspots for Boundless Informant [theguardian.com]. It appears that the US spies on Germany as much as it does on China.
What mass encryption? (Score:4, Insightful)
SSL is a transport crypto, if they "break in" the data is still stored in clear text on the servers. This was a crypto professor?? Wow...
Pointless (Score:2, Insightful)
All governments monitor their citizens.
Re:so.... (Score:5, Insightful)
I find it a beautiful irony that the country that invented the gestapo and the stasi finds the nsa a little bit too much :)
Re:so.... (Score:5, Insightful)
I find it absolutely frightening that the citizens of the country that supposedly stands against the tyranny of organizations like the Gestapo and the Stasi not only have not overturned their government over this huge scandal, but in fact mostly agree with the surveillance program.
Americans deserve what's coming to them.
Re:This makes sense (Score:5, Insightful)
Graphics cards are cheaper.
Since when did the government care about cost?
Re:so.... (Score:5, Insightful)
Dear Everyone Else
We like Canada more than America too
Sincerely
Americans
Re:so.... (Score:5, Insightful)
Americans deserve what's coming to them.
Actually we don't.
It matters not a wit who we elect, because the NSA/CIA are somehow above the law, and quickly co-opt every elected official.
We can do about as much about this as your lowly jewish shop keeper could do in 1938. We are totally screwed here, and its small comfort that you are in the same boat with your own government's spying programs.
Re:so.... (Score:2, Insightful)
It's because we're more concerned over people like you, who are so quick to talk of "overturning" the government. Bloody, violent rebellion that would leave the country in tatters, as a response to a program that's absolutely angelic compared to the shit done throughout most of the 20th century? You're nuts. We can push on our representatives to reel in the NSA, but abolishing the NSA (or worse, abolishing the government) would be disastrous. The militant anarchists are a far greater threat to our way of life.
We've come a long way since the age of Nixon. We have an even longer way to go, but burning it all down in frustration would be moronic.
Re:so.... (Score:2, Insightful)
You fucking hypocrite. Why don't you read about how the Nazis came to power. As I am not German, I can only assume it's dumb-assed people like you that don't read the history books.
Start with this link,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler's_rise_to_power
In case you are a "TL;DR", just look at the section "Seizure of control"
In case you are still too fucking lazy, my response to your comment is "ditto".
Remember, I'm not German - I've just studied history ... and that makes one of us.
Now go fuck yourself.
Re:why bother when you already have the keys? (Score:4, Insightful)
Technically, all they'd need is the CA's keys, as that's all that protects *your* private key when it's in transit to you
No it's not!
You have your private key, and public key, which is signed by a CA. The private key never leaves the server. Thats why it's called "PUBLIC key cryptography"