Encryption, the NSA, and the front door

Posted Apr 23, 2015 9:34 UTC (Thu) by grmd (guest, #4391)
Parent article: Encryption, the NSA, and the front door

There seems to a certain amount of parochial thinking ... does the NSA expect to have front doors into encrypted systems developed in every country in the world? ... will people in the USA be restricted to only using encrypted systems developed in the USA?

Encryption, the NSA, and the front door

Posted Apr 23, 2015 12:29 UTC (Thu) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link] (3 responses)

Same problem on the other side of the pond where British politicians want the same thing.

Encryption, the NSA, and the front door

Posted Apr 23, 2015 15:07 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] (2 responses)

Actually as far as I can tell the crowd of tech-phobic UK career politicians (and the tech-ultraphobic Civil Service people that they are mouthpieces for) want *no encryption at all*, and are so out of touch that they don't yet grasp that the time for that passed a generation ago.

Encryption, the NSA, and the front door

Posted Apr 26, 2015 8:26 UTC (Sun) by paulj (subscriber, #341) [Link] (1 responses)

While the politicians who get on TV and act as the PR mouthpieces might not be terribly well-informed, I think it is wrong to assume that therefore the civil servants behind the scenes who are pushing for this are not well-informed either.

I think we should assume the reverse, that these policies are being pushed by people who *are* well-informed. That they're pushing for this tells us they have trouble with encryption in main-stream products a non-trivial amount of the time, and that they believe that with sustained pressure on politicians they can get backdoor laws.

Encryption, the NSA, and the front door

Posted Apr 26, 2015 21:06 UTC (Sun) by rgb (subscriber, #57129) [Link]

Or they are pushing for this to make us think what you thought.