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david@systemoverlord.com (David Tomaschik) — Thu, 25 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know that the Crypto Wars are back. Politicians, seemingly led by Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, seem bound and determined to undermine user’s privacy and security online to strengthen the power of the police state. It will have disproportionate affects on the innocent rather than criminals and will raise operating costs and make it much harder for small businesses and startups to compete in the US.

Banning Encryption Will Fail... And It's a Bad Idea, Too

david@systemoverlord.com (David Tomaschik) — Wed, 23 Mar 2016 00:00:00 +0000

There’s a lot of debate going on right now about banning encryption. Now, some people might refer to this as a backdoor or “providing government access” or whatever term they’d like to use to discuss it, but as a security professional, I see only one thing as encryption: the kind that’s completely unbreakable, even by the FBI or the NSA or the Chinese government or anyone else. Anything else is simply not encryption, as it does not guarantee your confidentiality. So, I’m going to talk about banning encryption as equivalent to providing a government backdoor or any of the other clever ways it’s being spun.

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Banning Encryption Will Fail... And It's a Bad Idea, Too