> T.Rob, others, how does one go about preventing/protecting or just enabling security against such intrusion? In the legislature and in the various international bodies. If the proposals become law, products like Blackphone and Qredo will become illegal. However, this will not stop criminals from using crypto that the government cannot break and which is readily available. It is true in the most literal sense that when unbreakable crypto is outlawed, only outlaws will have unbreakable crypto. Considering the triviality of obtaining unbreakable crypto, only law-abiding citizens will use the back-door stuff. Combine that with the power imbalance inherent in such a scheme and the inevitable conclusion is this: Of all possible uses to which such a law can be put, the only ones we can predict with 100% confidence to be implemented are those that abuse the privacy of law-abiding citizens. The corollary to this is that the higher value a criminal target, the more likely they are to use readily available unbreakable crypto. The people the government most wants to catch are those least likely to be vulnerable to eavesdropping. There are a few possible technological controls that can be imposed. For example, when using blinded tokens it is possible to design them in such a way that they can be un-blinded but doing so is detectable. It is doubtful any government would agree to using that technology though, since the investigation is revealed immediately. However, even if enforceable accountability were implemented as a compromise, the government's strategy could be to simply unblind everything. Sort of a mass Denial-of-Privacy attack. Or perhaps a Denial-of-Privacy-Enhancement attack if you want the acronym to accurately describe the people who would do such a thing. Kind regards, -- T.Rob From: Dean Landsman [mailto:
] 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.
|
Archive powered by MHonArc 2.6.19.