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Jan 27 16 7:59 PM
Prime Minister David Cameron has stated that the U.K. government will look at “switching off” some forms of encryption in order to make society safer from terror attacks. This might make a grand statement but it is impossible to implement and extremely technologically naive. Encryption is a core part of the Internet; it’s use is increasing every day—Google’s services, including search and email, use encrypted streams, as do Facebook and Twitter and many other widely used sites. Encryption makes it almost impossible for eavesdroppers to read the contents of the traffic. It is the foundation upon which all e-commerce is based.
Prime Minister David Cameron has stated that the U.K. government will look at “switching off” some forms of encryption in order to make society safer from terror attacks. This might make a grand statement but it is impossible to implement and extremely technologically naive.
Encryption is a core part of the Internet; it’s use is increasing every day—Google’s services, including search and email, use encrypted streams, as do Facebook and Twitter and many other widely used sites. Encryption makes it almost impossible for eavesdroppers to read the contents of the traffic. It is the foundation upon which all e-commerce is based.
Read more @ http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/1949802-if-you-seek-to-switch-off-encryption-you-may-as-well-switch-off-the-whole-internet/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
The world has never been safe..... look at history. So if they want to use the fear factor to spy on everyone they are being very naive. The world will still not be safe.
Since so much of life has moved online, a clash has emerged between the opposing values of Internet freedom and Internet control. Should the Internet be a public arena free of all interference and influence from the authorities? Or does too much freedom result in anarchy, turning the Internet into a safe haven for criminals and terrorists? The tension between these two opposing extremes, the “crypto wars,” is a battle that has been raging for 30 years—an approach that would reconcile these two attitudes would offer a way forward. Long-term privacy advocate and cryptographer David Chaum recently put forward one such idea that involves building a special “backdoor” that could only be accessed on agreement by multiple parties across different countries and cultures—an idea that combines the protections of encryption while meeting the need for transparency that law enforcement wants. But will it work? Freedom vs Control The Internet is built as an open system, with unique IP addresses that identify computers online and logs of connections from one to another. So for supporters of a free Internet the big challenge is maintaining anonymity, so that the web can be used and sites visited without leaving behind a digital trace that could identify users. Anonymizing software such as Tor has been developed in response, and hides the link between a browser and the website it visits. But while Tor makes it harder to determine who has been visiting websites, it is not infallible. The fact remains that guaranteeing absolute anonymity on the Internet is very difficult.
Since so much of life has moved online, a clash has emerged between the opposing values of Internet freedom and Internet control. Should the Internet be a public arena free of all interference and influence from the authorities? Or does too much freedom result in anarchy, turning the Internet into a safe haven for criminals and terrorists?
The tension between these two opposing extremes, the “crypto wars,” is a battle that has been raging for 30 years—an approach that would reconcile these two attitudes would offer a way forward. Long-term privacy advocate and cryptographer David Chaum recently put forward one such idea that involves building a special “backdoor” that could only be accessed on agreement by multiple parties across different countries and cultures—an idea that combines the protections of encryption while meeting the need for transparency that law enforcement wants. But will it work?
The Internet is built as an open system, with unique IP addresses that identify computers online and logs of connections from one to another. So for supporters of a free Internet the big challenge is maintaining anonymity, so that the web can be used and sites visited without leaving behind a digital trace that could identify users.
Anonymizing software such as Tor has been developed in response, and hides the link between a browser and the website it visits. But while Tor makes it harder to determine who has been visiting websites, it is not infallible. The fact remains that guaranteeing absolute anonymity on the Internet is very difficult.
Read more @ http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/1950574-could-encryption-backdoors-safeguard-privacy-and-fight-terror-online/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
I think governments the world over are afraid of losing their power over the people..... so they want to spy more and more out of fear.
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