The Dangers Lurking in the U.K.’s Plan for Electronic Eavesdropping | Lawfare | Susan Landau | …HMG zealotry against encryption leads to strategic risk
https://alecmuffett.com/article/112672
#EndToEndEncryption #HomeOffice #SusanLandau #apple #gchq #surveillance

The Dangers Lurking in the U.K.’s Plan for Electronic Eavesdropping | Lawfare | Susan Landau | …HMG zealotry against encryption leads to strategic risk

This article by former colleague Professor Susan Landau highlights the UK Government’s pervasive fear of user privacy and end to end encryption via something I was previously unaware: *breaking* from the rest of the “Five Eyes” re: mitigation of “Salt Typhoon”:

Vulnerabilities in the telephone signaling systems allowed entry into the phone networks. As I also described in Lawfare, greater centralization of wiretapping capabilities that were a result of the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act simplified the Chinese hackers’ ability to determine targets of U.S. wiretap orders. Lack of end-to-end encryption enabled their reading of text messages. In response, the “Four Eyes”—the Five Eyes, the intelligence alliance of Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the U.S. with the U.K. declining to participate—issued guidance on securing communications, including, “Ensure that traffic is end-to-end encrypted to the maximum extent possible.”

This suggests impractical levels of political will against the popularisation and deployment of cryptography, for some reason.

https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-dangers-lurking-in-the-u.k.-s-plan-for-electronic-eavesdropping

#apple #endToEndEncryption #feed #gchq #homeOffice #surveillance #susanLandau

“Write the Laws for the World in Which We Live—Not the One We Imagine”

Professor Susan Landau is a former colleague and one of the greatest exponents of online privacy alive today; she was also recently the subject of a bizarre attack-blogpost by child-protection-activist John Carr (more to come) so it’s good to see Susan’s work in a proper frame at Lawfare:

https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/write-the-laws-for-the-world-in-which-we-live-not-the-one-we-imagine

#encryption #endToEndEncryption #johnCarr #privacy #susanLandau

https://alecmuffett.com/article/108655