Internet Activists Ridicule PM Cameron's Plan to Ban Strong Encryption in the UK
British Prime Minister David Cameron said that his government intends to ban strong encryption, UK's leading political news website politics.co.uk reports. In reply to Tory Member of Parliament Henry Bellingham, who asked the prime minister whether the attacks in Tunisia meant it was time companies such as Google, Facebook and Twitter understand that....
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Tor, the (in)famous encrypted web browser, may not be strong enough to resist the next generation’s attacks on encryption. What will the next generation of encryption tools look like? Tor came to the forefront of the privacy debate through providing an encrypted web browser used by such services as the Silk Road. In the years since Edward Snowden leaked the NSA’s mass collection of metadata, the amount of Internet users interested in encryption grew dramatically. However, Tor’s encryption may not be completely trusted. In fact, 80% of user types may be de-anonymized within six months,....
The possibility of a crackdown on encryption systems in the UK has risen again, ringing alarm bells in the bitcoin community. A terrorist attack that killed 30 UK citizens in Tunisia last month led one MP to question prime minister David Cameron on whether popular social networks and internet services would have to abandon their claimed privacy policies. Cameron and the UK government are on record as saying they do not approve of any communication medium that is 100% secret. The question is: given bitcoin's cryptographic foundation, would bitcoin businesses find it impossible to function....
A newly released U.S. government study called encryption vital to protecting personal data, according to The Guardian. The leak comes hot on the heels of UK Prime Minister David Cameron's anti-encryption comments. The study, unveiled in Snowden's cache of documents, was secretly published in 2009 by the U.S. National Intelligence Council, a group that informs the Director of National Intelligence. The report described the global cyber security climate at the time of the report, and described projected threats to the U.S. information infrastructure. Notably, it called encryption the “best....
In response to the tragic terror attacks in France, intelligence agencies have launched another campaign against strong encryption, such as the type that tech companies use to create secure end-to-end communication services. Intelligence agencies are attempting to blame the encryption as an enabler for extremists to plan and follow through with terror attacks. After recent attempts to stifle encryption failed, it seems like this is an opportune time to rebuild their attacks on encryption due to this tragedy. In a strategy found in a leaked email sent by the intelligence community’s top....