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This morning the Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing on encryption and “lawful access.” That’s the fanciful idea that encryption providers can somehow allow law enforcement access to users’ encrypted data while otherwise preventing the “bad guys” from accessing this very same data.But...
A few weeks ago, U.S. Attorney General William Barr joined his counterparts from the U.K. and Australia to publish an open letter addressed to Facebook. The Barr letter represents the latest salvo …
A few weeks ago, U.S. Attorney General William Barr joined his counterparts from the U.K. and Australia to publish an open letter addressed to Facebook. The Barr letter represents the latest salvo …
Attorney general William Barr seems eager to reignite the encryption wars, starting with the social media giant.
Meer achtergrond over het client side filteren en of het nou wel of niet in de plannen van Facebook zou zitten. Het lijkt hier in ieder geval al wel op dat Facebook aan het cashen is op de credibility van Nate Cardozo.
Deze man beargumenteerd dat we richting een wereld gaan waarin onze apparaten vanaf de cloud lokale filters krijgen gepusht waarmee zaken gecensureerd en direct afgetapt kunnen worden. Facebook is al bezig met dit soort technologie. Het zou volgens hem het einde van de cryptowars betekenen: die zijn dan irrelevant.
William Barr's terrible, stupid idea to ban working crypto is slightly less terrible and stupid than earlier ideas
Why do we care about encryption? Why was it a big deal, at least in theory, when Mark Zuckerberg announced earlier this year that Facebook would move to end-to-end encryption on all three of its messaging platforms? We don’t just support encryption for its own sake. We fight for it because...
The past few years have been an amazing time for encryption. In under a decade, protocols like TLS have gone from a novelty to, essentially, “table stakes” for running a secure website. Smart…
The statement is an effort by the intelligence alliance to show support for a new Australian proposal on lawful access to encrypted devices. But it ignores technical realities—and certain important signatures are missing.
Oh for fuck's sake, not this fucking bullshit again (cryptography edition)
Earlier today in the U.S. Capitol Visitor Center, EFF convened a closed-door briefing for Senate staff about the realities of device encryption. While policymakers hear frequently from the FBI and the Department of Justice about the dangers of encryption and the so-called Going Dark problem, they...
The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) released a much-anticipated report yesterday that attempts to influence the encryption debate by proposing a “framework for decisionmakers.” At best, the report is unhelpful. At worst, its framing makes the task of defending encryption harder. The report...
Wray called for technical solution to 'going dark' problem during recent speech.
Focus shifts to smaller platforms that can ‘quickly become home to criminals and terrorists’
It's a new name for an old argument: that public agencies fighting crime and terrorism must have access to our private communications—for our own good.
NERD HARDER! FBI Director reiterates faith-based belief in working crypto that he can break
De Europese Commissie trekt 500.000 euro uit om opsporingsdiensten te trainen in het kraken of omzeilen van encryptie. Met encryptie worden veel vormen van digitale communicatie beveiligd – dus ook die van criminelen.
Malcolm Turnbull says the ‘law of Australia’ will prevail over the ‘laws of mathematics’ in new legislation on encryption. But he is on shaky ground
Attorney general isn’t just proposing a backdoor into encrypted communications – it’s a giant sinkhole your backdoor fell into
UK Tories say they'll exploit Manchester's dead to ban working crypto in the UK
De Britse overheid wil de communicatie tussen staatsburgers live in de gaten kunnen houden en achterdeurtjes in encryptie verplicht maken.
MPs are increasingly turning to tech to coordinate political skulduggery, but their ignorance of encryption is a security risk
Facebook CSO Alex Stamos is a human warrant-canary for the Trump era
Detectives have developed a new tactic to beat criminals using mobile phone encryption - legally mug them.
De aankomende directeur van de Amerikaanse inlichtingendienst CIA Mike Pompeo heeft gezegd dat het gebruik van encryptie voor persoonlijke communicatie verdacht kan zijn. Ook wil hij de surveillance
Prominente Amerikaanse internetbedrijven, waaronder Facebook en Amazon, hebben aankomend president Donald Trump een brief gestuurd met daarin beleidspunten die zij graag uitgevoerd zouden zien.
One year ago today, the 100,000th person added their name to a public petition calling on President Obama to categorically reject any attempt to add backdoors to our devices or otherwise undermine encryption. Since then, crickets.
When it comes to this country’s courts, longstanding practice, history, and the Constitution make clear that openness—of doors, of evidence, of arguments, of opinions—is the rule. Like the First Amendment’s guarantee of freedom of speech, that rule is not absolute. But it puts in place a default, one that forces those who want to keep court proceedings secret to show, in each case, that secrecy is warranted—and that the need for secrecy overcomes the traditions and values of openness that animate the default rule in the first place.
Scotland Yard charge: teaching people to use crypto is an act of terrorism
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Gelukkig houden terroristen zich altijd aan de wet
Frankrijk wil versleutelde berichtenapps op internationaal niveau aanpakken. De Franse minister van Binnenlandse Zaken Bernard Cazeneuve wil daarom samen met zijn Duitse collega een plan van aanpak opstellen.
It was Snowden's first public debate. “For the government to unlock everything there has to be a key to everything," he said.
Afgelopen dinsdag kondigde de politie en het Openbaar Ministerie aan dat ze een versleuteld crimineel communicatienetwerk uit de lucht hadden gehaald, maar de advocaat van de netwerkaanbieder hekel