Obama Sides with Cameron in Encryption Fight
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Obama Sides with Cameron in Encryption Fight
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#2WHAT? everything is horrible
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#3“If we find evidence of a terrorist plot… and despite having a phone number, despite having a social media address or email address, we can’t penetrate that, that’s a problem,”
If you can penetrate that with evidence of a terrorist plot, 1) you can penetrate that without evidence of a terrorist plot, and 2) probably so can others.
Both of these make us less safe.
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#4walter_laughing_in_crawlspace.gif
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#5George Orwell's 1984 should be a required reading for high school students. Not just in the U.S., but world wide. It really highlights just what dangers come from the idea that you have nothing to fear if you have nothing to hide, and the sheer amount of power and influence a global, instantaneous, and always on intelligence network can have over the population.
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#6What if Google says, "no"? What if they choose to implement a service that they don't have keys to?
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#7Blatant attempt by intelligence services and law enforcement to get their personal wish lists legislated by shamelessly exploiting a tragedy.
I'll happily donate a constant percentage of my company income to fight whatever useless laws come out of this. It'll be fought immediately if they try to legislate backdoors or any equivalent tinkering.
Last time we had a big legal fight about strong encryption, we got a supreme court ruling that source code implementing strong encryption was free speech, didn't we? Wonder how counterproductive the governments own actions will be this time.
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#8What if Google says, "no"? What if they choose to implement a service that they don't have keys to?
They will force them to create a backdoor. Just like they did with Microsoft's products.
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#9George Orwell's 1984 should be a required reading for high school students. Not just in the U.S., but world wide. It really highlights just what dangers come from the idea that you have nothing to fear if you have nothing to hide, and the sheer amount of power and influence a global, instantaneous, and always on intelligence network can have over the population.
I've started to think that the focus on 1984 is harmful.
For one, fiction is not evidence. Using it as such is poor reasoning.
For another, I've seen a reaction of "that's just fiction, it wouldn't actually happen" distracting from the important points.
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#10Allow me to ask what I'm certain is an incredibly naive question, so please bear with me. But it's a question that the average / non-tech folks ARE asking, and I'm not looking to be attacked, I'm looking for an intelligent answer (or corrections if my assumptions are wrong.) Base scenario:
We have adversaries. Our adversaries are plotting something objectively bad - to blow up things and kill innocent people. They are plotting and coordinating these bad things via communications with one another. Historically, we have been able to intercept those communications, read them, and interrupt our adversaries from the bad things they are plotting.
If our adversaries' communications are completely impossible to intercept, we have lost one of the most valuable tools in our ability to prevent them from doing bad things. How are we supposed to prevent them from doing these bad things?
Again - please don't attack me - just looking for a smart answer here.