the biggest fear of Edward Snowden was that his sacrifice has no effect. Rather, it is having an effect throughout the whole of the Internet - and the biggest effect in the parts of the net, you will never notice or
They say a good sysadmin is like a window :. If they function optimally, you do not notice them. Encryption is very similar, in that you barely notice it's there, yet it needs to protect your privacy. There is the conflict between the ubiquitous convenience and safety - and until a few years ago, the convenience (and cost) had won this battle. . No more
You can see in the launch of new messaging services: pre-Snowden, nobody asked for encryption. Now it is a point of sale everywhere. In addition, large data centers did not use to encrypt their internal links between data centers - until it was discovered that the unprotected internal links were a primary source of wiretapping to NSA. Now it seems that everyone encrypt internal datalink same.
The important thing here is the place where your loyalty, if you are a data provider or service provider. Do your customers, who pay your salary, or is that your government, which ... well, doing something else? More and more IT companies choose to side with their clients, and necessity, which also ranking against their government. Governments are obviously not happy with this.
Before 2010, you would rarely if ever see the government of a service provider in the threat model against a service. Today, you are not a serious matter if you do not take into account the adversarial governments as part of your threat model against your clients.
This is the context where governments beginning to require any backdoors in encryption. They essentially a confused occasional capacity for the whole world for a wiretap right in this capacity , which are two entirely different things, and they are the least threat to get strength Their path. David Cameron of the United Kingdom may be the most important example, which is arguing that there should be no encryption that the government can not break, and that - as a result - is completely incompetent brand for all technical issues with a unified computing industry. It is good to see that more and more IT companies are taking this kind of position for their clients - for us. Ultimately, it is a struggle governments can not win: if the central departments are obliged to comply, encryption will simply move to the edges, users
Encryption has grown from a niche curiosity to be taken seriously. in just a few years. And everyone is building more.
Privacy remains your own responsibility.
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