I’ve often wondered why governments have spent so much time decrying the use of encryption when criminals can just get an untraceable burner phone and accomplish the same thing in a much simpler fashion.
These are all good, and it’s even better that these basic security measures are being discussed by the legal sector, finally! 😉 10 Actionable Privacy, Security & Encryption Takeaways From #ABATECHSHOW
The thing that bugs me the most about this situation is not the argument about what Apple should or shouldn’t be required to do, it’s the number of politicians who feel the need to pipe in on behalf of the government, who clearly have no idea how encryption works. The whole point of encrypting data…
The newspaper has reported that the Justice Department is weighing how to move forward with an ongoing investigation that has run into trouble because of the service’s encryption. A federal judge had okayed a wiretap order during the course of the investigation, but because the communications being tapped is encrypted, they can’t see what’s being…
If you’ve been paying attention to the news lately, it seems that some of the things that innocent people might use to protect themselves from bad people, are being threatened by some faulty logic. First, it was social networks and online communication, where all sorts of mean behavior was being blamed on anonymity: After people-rating…
“It’s one aspect of a tech policy problem that has been plaguing us for at least 25 years: technologists and policymakers don’t understand each other, and they inflict damage on society because of that. But it’s worse today. The speed of technological progress makes it worse. And the types of technology — especially the current…