Thursday, April 09, 2015

Influencers: Stronger encryption on consumer devices won't hurt national security (+video) - CSMonitor.com

Influencers: Stronger encryption on consumer devices won't hurt national security (+video) - CSMonitor.com: ""We live in a Golden Age of Surveillance. Never in human history have police had such easy access to such vast quantities of data about people. They'll still be able to use subpoenas or court orders (and the threat of contempt penalties or even obstruction charges) to compel people to decrypt data; they can still surreptitiously attempt to get people's passphrases through physical surveillance," Mr. Sanchez continued. "It is flat out insane to suggest that we should undermine the security of a technology used by hundreds of millions of people for legitimate purposes because of the minuscule fraction of cases where crypto will be the make-or-break factor in a legitimate investigation.""


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