RE: In wake of Paris attacks, renewed calls for encryption backdoors [Guardian]
http://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2015/nov/16/paris-attacks-france-terrorism-isis-obama-hollande-war Bratton [NYC Police Commissioner] told MSNBC host and former Republican congressman Joe Scarborough that "You have to be on the offense. Offense is intelligence" on MSNBC, and said that encryption was a problem. "We are losing a lot of that intelligence momentum because of that issue." Privacy advocate Lauren Weinstein, who worked on the Department of Defense's proto-internet project Arpanet, said secure encryption backdoors are a pure impossibility. "If there was a scientifically provable way to do this, we could have the discussion," Weinstein told the Guardian, "but it doesn't make sense to have the discussion when everybody who's looked at this and is honest about it says that it would make us more vulnerable. "The math will get you every time." - - - --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein ([email protected]): http://www.vortex.com/lauren Founder: - Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org - PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com/privacy-info Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org/pfir-info Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com Google+: http://google.com/+LaurenWeinstein Twitter: http://twitter.com/laurenweinstein Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 / Skype: vortex.com I have consulted to Google, but I am not currently doing so. My opinions expressed here are mine alone. _______________________________________________ pfir mailing list http://lists.pfir.org/mailman/listinfo/pfir
