Government Wants to Limit Encryption
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04/22/2015 09:55 AM
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The government doesn\'t like it when they can\'t read our mail. They want encryption technology modified or limited, because they jut don't like it when we have secrets. The White House and U.S. Department of Homeland Security officials support arguments by the nation’s law enforcement and intelligence leaders that encryption technology should be restricted or modified to make it easier for the government to access private data.
Speaking at the world’s largest computer security event, the RSA conference, Jeh Johnson—the U.S. secretary for Homeland Security—said that strong encryption was hampering law enforcement and that workarounds were needed. At the same event, President Obama’s cybersecurity coӧrdinator said that the White House was looking into what methods could be required in encryption technology to give law enforcement and other agencies a way in.
The remarks come after FBI director James Comey called last year for unlocking mechanisms for systems like those that automatically encrypt data on Apple smartphones. Just last week, National Security Agency head Michael Rogers sketched out a system where companies would have to hand over encryption keys to his agency and others in government.
In a keynote speech at the RSA conference, Johnson cautioned the computer industry against widening the use of strong encryption. He likened the situation to a world in which the telephone had been introduced without an accompanying mechanism for law enforcement and intelligence agencies to tap phone calls. “Our inability to access encrypted information poses public safety challenges,” he said. “Encryption is making it harder for your government to find criminal activity.”
Johnson did not recommend specific technical solutions, but made it clear that he felt the government should have a way to circumvent or unwind encryption. He appealed to the computer network and security professionals in the audience to consider how it might be done. “We need your help to find a solution,” he said.... After all, us little people are not entitled to keep secrets. Onward and upward, airforce
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Re: Government Wants to Limit Encryption
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04/22/2015 02:09 PM
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Or be secure in our persons, houses, papers and effects.
"Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always Bad Men." Lord Actin 1887
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Re: Government Wants to Limit Encryption
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04/22/2015 03:37 PM
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This is pretty close to the direction things have been going for some time now. Use of a computer for Encryption and Internet use is a bad idea and quite insecure. Using the 'old school' method to create One Time Pads is quite secure, so long as the keys remain secure till use, then destroyed after use. Here is a PDF How To http://users.telenet.be/d.rijmenants/papers/one_time_pad.pdf Just read and practice till it all 'clicks' avoiding use of the PC for really secure messages. A favorite way for the .GOV to operate is to place a hidden keystroke program to monitor the target computer(s). Use the old paper and pencil, destroy any sent/copied messages.
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Re: Government Wants to Limit Encryption
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04/23/2015 06:17 AM
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I worked for a courier service here in Portland for about a month. Everyone moving large files involving anything important uses sealed packages with encrypted hard drives.
I also noticed that's how it goes when I worked for an electrical company changing over a bunch of stuff in a modern movie theater. They have special packages and boxes that they use for sending new release movies back and forth with and what they do is load it into the projectors in the form of an encrypted hard drive, then go through a number of programming and password protocols online in real time to get authorization to play the show.
The spies and anarchists out of Europe have been in to using dead drops with USB thumb drives for over a decade.
Frequent use of encryption is going to attract the wrong kind of attention, the wrong kind of attention is then going to attract efforts to investigate, efforts to investigate eventually require results, the requirement for investigative results, in the police state environment, will, in the mind of the police state, require adverse action. If they don't find a reason, they will make it up, and what may have not otherwise been a priority target becomes one.
The trick is to escape the unwanted attention in the first place, with the vast majority if your communication being open, common, and innocent. Or at least open, common, and innocent sounding to those eavesdropping on it. Thus, any conclusions they come to based on whatever they seem to think is some sort of "secret code" eventually has the appearance of a wild goose chase, which it often is, and erodes their organizational credibility from within. Once their organizational credibility is eroded, their funding cuts happen from there, once their funding cuts happen, the effectiveness of your enemy and their capability for aggression is diminished.
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Re: Government Wants to Limit Encryption
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05/01/2015 07:47 AM
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Sen. Rand Paul had some harsh words for the Secrtary of Homeland Security over encryption. Good. Republican presidential hopeful Rand Paul tangled with a top Obama administration official Wednesday on the matter of protecting data privacy through encryption.
The Kentucky senator questioned Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson on the bulk collection of phone records, and argued that consumers’ desire for encryption is a response to government surveillance.
“The real culprit is government,” Paul said during a Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing.
“You’ve been so overzealous vacuuming up our records without a legitimate warrant … [Encryption] is a response to a government that didn’t have a real sense of decency toward privacy.”
Paul also criticized the government for surveillance during the civil rights era, which he described as a cautionary tale.
"Look at the time the government wasn’t so good. The FBI director recently pointed back and talked about the times that Martin Luther King was spied upon. That's why we want these procedural protections," he said.
Johnson, who has been making the rounds in tech circles arguing against full encryption, declined to weigh in on bulk data collection but urged Congress to act.
“I’m in favor of a balanced solution to the [encryption] problem,” he said, adding that encrypting records makes it harder to conduct criminal investigations. “I think it’s something we need to address."
Johnson spoke to a major cybersecurity conference in San Francisco last week, where his stance on encryption was ridiculed by tech experts. “I wasn’t real popular for doing that,” he said of his speech.
Paul replied that bulk records collection is “not a balanced approach,” and said agencies must be made to seek warrants as part of the process.
As the GOP field’s main libertarian, Paul has aggressively courted Silicon Valley backers. Onward and upward, airforce
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