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Obama's statement on Cyber Defense; days after Edward Snowden says we should focus on Cyber Defense instead of Offense.
NPR- Obama: If we're going to be connected, then we need to be protected
President Obama said Monday he wants the federal government to do more to prevent cyber attacks. He outlined a series of proposals designed to safeguard personal data — steps he'll talk more about in next week's State of the Union address.
"Dozens of software companies have already signed a voluntary pledge not to misuse students' data. But some in the industry worry that a new federal law would go too far."
Snowden's interview Transcript
Snowden: "DES was actually stronger than we thought it was at the time because the NSA had secretly manipulated the standard to make it stronger back in the day, which was weird, but that shows the difference in thinking between the ’80s and the ’90s."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 14 2015, @09:58PM
There's no evidence to post. This is a fact. What one encrypts, another can decrypt (brute force, not coerced decryption). As was said earlier, it's a matter of making it so hard, cost preventative and time consuming to decrypt that it's simply not worth it to most people to even try, not to make it impossible.
However, criminal organizations looking for something to exploit, governments who seem to think it's their right to snoop on our communications and Universities simply researching if it can be done feasibly without having acres of supercomputers crunching numbers are a few of the organizations that have the potential resources to pull brute force decryption off.