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posted by martyb on Sunday September 01 2019, @07:43AM   Printer-friendly
from the Seckret-Codez dept.

Bruce Schneier has written a short piece over at Lawfare in response to ongoing calls to weaken encryption. Unlike during the cold war there is no longer a distinction between consumer grade encryption and military encryption. This is because customized encryption is both more expensive and less secure, because it is unique, non-standard, and untested.

In his keynote address at the International Conference on Cybersecurity, Attorney General William Barr argued that companies should weaken encryption systems to gain access to consumer devices for criminal investigations. Barr repeated a common fallacy about a difference between military-grade encryption and consumer encryption: "After all, we are not talking about protecting the nation's nuclear launch codes. Nor are we necessarily talking about the customized encryption used by large business enterprises to protect their operations. We are talking about consumer products and services such as messaging, smart phones, e-mail, and voice and data applications."

The thing is, that distinction between military and consumer products largely doesn't exist. All of those "consumer products" Barr wants access to are used by government officials—heads of state, legislators, judges, military commanders and everyone else—worldwide. They're used by election officials, police at all levels, nuclear power plant operators, CEOs and human rights activists. They're critical to national security as well as personal security.

Earlier on SN:
U.S. Attorney General William Barr Demands Backdoored Encryption (2019)
FBI: End-to-End Encryption Problem "Infects" Law Enforcement and Intelligence Community (2019)
The Crypto Warrior--Why Politicians Want a ‘Back Door’ into Your Devices—and Why it Will Never Work (2016)


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  • (Score: 2) by jmichaelhudsondotnet on Monday September 02 2019, @12:35PM

    by jmichaelhudsondotnet (8122) on Monday September 02 2019, @12:35PM (#888797) Journal

    You can't say every statement you don't like is a dogwhistle. You can but it has no credibilty.

    The question is whether there are some jewish people contributing to taking the United States over from the inside, not what is or is not anti-semitic.

    This minefield, that protects people like Epstein and Weinstein, is batshit insane and anti-intellectual.

    The question is whether or not these people can be trusted with my encryption and to effectively work for the american people in their positions of government.

    Do you deny that literally dozens of jewish people with tiest to israel have been caught betraying america in high up positions of power?

    If you cannot prove that point, then the problem is yours. Antisemitism isn't just a slur but a proven fact, you should be anti-semitic because a lot of jewish people are actually involved in subverting your country for their own interests.

    Otherwise outlawing anti-semitism simply permanently legalizes the corruption of jewish people, which I would say is much close to where we are actually at than some kind of nazi takeover. Oddly, the most nazi president we have ever had, the current one, is giving Israel everything on its wishlist while appointing dozens of jewish people to positions of high power, including the guys who are letting epstein get away with it.

    fwiw you are using anti-stemitism as 'anti-jewish', anti-semitic would include all semitic people only a minority of whom are israelis are jewish. But jewish people themselves argue over what it means to be jewish, so people like myself who simply want to say something intelligent about the problem and save my country from a pointless civil war, are dragged into the minefield and then pounced on by people like yourself who are looking for one slip-up so you can label me and disregard everything I have to say.

    So please stop, it's intellectually disgusting, and you are just protecting epstein and his friends at this point. idk maybe that's the side you want to be on? If you're israeli, it might mean a new parcel of land on which you can build a house and in which you can be as racist against palestinians(read: antisemitic) as you want.

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