With recent acts of terrorism in Paris and Lebanon, news media and government have been using the word “encryption” as if it’s somehow to blame. Nonsense. Encryption is easy to understand, and if you’re not using it, you should be. Link: What is Encryption, and Why Are People Afraid of It?
It was a popular item, getting a bunch of retweets. But I realized later that I was wrong to post it, because I fell right into a trap the surveillance statists have been laying. Link: Even If Terrorists Do Use Strong Encryption, We Still Need It — Backchannel — Medium
Everything from baby monitors to smart TVs and vehicles have been found to rely on security measures that have been found to wholly inadequate and now a team of mathematicians were able to break a key used as part of the encryption system that secures many of the most critical IoT technologies in Link: Algebraic …
Algebraic Eraser, the algorithm running the ‘Internet of Things’ is broken…again Read More »
An anonymous reader writes: Back in September, members of Google’s Project Zero team found a pair of flaws in the TrueCrypt disk encryption software that could lead to a system compromise. Their discovery raised concerns that TrueCrypt was unsuitable for use in securing sensitive data. Link: TrueCrypt Safer Than Previously Thought
One day after presidential candidate Hillary Clinton outlined her strategy for defeating ISIS in New York — which called for Silicon Valley not to “view government as its adversary” in that fight — a number of technology experts tell Tech Insider the government-tech divide is not so easily Link: Encryption is here to stay
