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Christopher Allen
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In his new role as Senior Technology Fellow at the @ACLU, my long-time colleague and friend, former PGP & Silent Circle/Blackphone CTO @joncallas has posted a series of articles on the increasing intrusive role that governments want to have in encryption technologies…
7/23/2019, 6:06:04 PM
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“GCHQ…proposal would enable surveillance on encrypted communications not by trying to mathematically attack or weaken the encryption, but simply by forcing service providers to secretly add an extra user—the government—to an encrypted conversation.” https://www.aclu.org/blog/ghost-user-ploy-break-encryption-wont-work
7/23/2019, 6:07:44 PM
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“Rather than grapple with the reality…the GCHQ proposal seems to just trust that technology providers will magically be able to sift between deserving and undeserving governments demanding ghost user access. It would never be that easy” https://www.aclu.org/blog/when-you-have-data-they-will-come
7/23/2019, 6:10:30 PM
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“there is no place to put virtual crocodile clips except for on our personal smartphones, computers, and other end-point devices. When Alice and Bob talk to each other, you can either listen on Alice’s device or Bob’s. There is no one path” https://www.aclu.org/blog/adding-ghost-user-our-encrypted-communications-no-crocodile-chip
7/23/2019, 6:13:26 PM
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“The GCHQ proposal…creates an international surveillance free-for-all where smart criminals can decide to opt-out of government eyes while leaving the law-abiding without security.” https://www.aclu.org/blog/recent-ploy-break-encryption-old-idea-proven-wrong
7/23/2019, 6:17:09 PM
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