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Subject: [liberationtech] How Laura Poitras Helped Snowden Spill His Secrets
From: [email protected] (Tony Arcieri)
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2013 12:43:41 -0700
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On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 5:16 AM, Eugen Leitl <[email protected]> wrote:

> This past January, Laura Poitras received a curious e-mail from an
> anonymous
> stranger requesting her public encryption key. For almost two years,
> Poitras
> had been working on a documentary about surveillance, and she occasionally
> received queries from strangers. She replied to this one and sent her
> public
> key â?? allowing him or her to send an encrypted e-mail that only Poitras
> could
> open, with her private key


Then the NSA MitMed her unauthenticated plaintext email, replacing her
public key with theirs, and were able to intercept all of the Snowden
emails. Oops!

-- 
Tony Arcieri
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