[projectvrm] Re: [startup-circle] The NSA wants front door access to your encrypted data | ExtremeTech

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On 17 April 2015 at 09:42, Geoff Revill < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

Debates about this sort of issue held solely at the national level are fundamentally flawed when put in the context of international products and solutions

+1. They're human rights, not just USian rights.

Note ill-advised senior people at heart of UK government are taking the same line (unsurprisingly), and talking of a requiring a "concordat" between business and government to resolve this problem without understanding how it would work.

Issues are

• oversight and accountability
• individual sovereignty or agency; fundamental misunderstanding of what it is to be human and how people operate individually and together
  
• realistic threat model: how to keep half an eye on the 15% and focus on the sub 1%
  
• cost-benefit analysis of listening to people's call patterns then killing them with drones

I do think a political decision to cut the budget is the only way out of this evil madness. We're all connected now and have to find a way to rub along together. Behaving intolerably is not a good start, and is certainly unsustainable.

William

PS My views perhaps coloured by being just yesterday back from visiting the Alhambra and Moorish Spain. The Christian conquerors burned 80,000 books, rode roughshod over exquisite tiled floors designed for bare feet and banned the hot baths.

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The only winner when the laws focus solely on national issues are the international corporates who get to play the law in their favour.  

Of course most of the people on this forum would put themselves in the category of seeking to use International law in favour of customer privacy empowerment. I know I do and have made it a pro-active consideration.

Geoff

On 17 Apr 2015, at 03:16, Dean Landsman < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

Here's a chilling personal data and US government intrusion story to help us feel all warm and safe in homes and in our digital and communication lives.

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/203275-the-nsa-wants-front-door-access-to-your-encrypted-data?mailing_id=1226581&mailing=ExtremeTech&mailingID=FBBBFB17FB564E0189BF4FF88FBAC02D

T.Rob, others, how does one go about preventing/protecting or just enabling security against such intrusion?

Best regards, even after sending such chilling reading,

--Dean


Best regards,

--Dean



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