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Carly Fiorina Says Government Needs a Way To "Work Around" Encryption (dailydot.com)
Patrick O'Neill writes: Carly Fiorina wants the government to be able to "work around" encryption to aid intelligence agencies and law enforcement in their investigations, she said on Monday. The Republican presidential candidate and former HP CEO shifted the focus of her campaign to national security two days before the last Republican debate of 2015. Fiorina is the latest but not the first presidential candidate to weigh in on the encryption debate that has taken on a new life since terrorist attacks in Paris and California.
why she was such a shitty tech CEO.
I'm sure lots of people want a 'work around', but what they want isn't always possible.
It is probably not what she meant, but off course there is a workaround for encryption. I am talking off course about good old detective work, infiltration and what we expect our national security services to actually do. If you know beforehand what is about to be encrypted, you have the perfect workaround. If you only know after the message has been sent, you are probably already too late.
Nae king! Nae laird! Nae yurrupiean pressedent! We willna be fooled again!
We've just had GCHQ release their graph analysis software into the public domain. It's basically that, graph analysis, a database that can be constantly added to and performs data analysis. So what they're talking about is clearly bulk data mining, the so called 'power of big data' to spot terrorists and criminals.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/12/14/brit_spookhaus_gchq_creates_github_repo_offers_graph_database/
Mass surveillance to collect the data then graph analysis to analyse it. Not targetted investigations. You need the bulk data to crunch the numbers to see what's abnormal. And for that, you need to spy on everyone all the time, and encryption prevents that.
Of course it just generates masses of false positives and meanwhile the terrorists... well they just do their thing without causing any flags. Paris attackers used SMS with NO encryption and sailed straight past France's notorious mass surveillance.
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20151118/08474732854/after-endless-demonization-encryption-police-find-paris-attackers-coordinated-via-unencrypted-sms.shtml ///////////
And handily, you also spy on political campaigners, politicians, parliaments, journalists, governments, competing companies, defense contractors, etc etc.
Which is far more valuable. AND IS THE WHOLE POINT.
So UK Parliament, as an example, uses Microsoft Cloud. Microsoft assisted in bypassing encryption for the PRISM surveillance. PRISM forms a large part of Obama's morning brief. So basically now private internal UK Parliamentary documents and memos are read by US intelligence and used to brief the US President and Diplomats to ensure the debates produce UK laws the US wants.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/11/microsoft-nsa-collaboration-user-data
This decision was made *after* Snowden. They knew full well the US had a backdoor into Microsoft, and you lot in GCHQ, fuck you, you fucking traitors, anyone of you could have put end to end encryption into Parliaments communications. You know which encryption schemes NSA has broken, your duty is to UK, not the military leadership chain up through NATO. Get off your Stasi asses and secure Parliaments comms AS PER YOUR DUTY.
http://www.computerweekly.com/news/2240230372/Hague-reassures-MPs-on-Office-365-data-storage-as-Microsoft-ordered-to-hand-over-email-data ////////////
And now we know why Hewlett Packard Servers had backdoors.
http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/New-backdoor-in-HP-server-products-1916506.html
"Computer manufacturer HP has admitted that its StoreVirtual servers also contain an undocumented backdoor. "
This was the one that you could log in remotely and add extra users to the file system with full privileges, all with one backdoor account password, Al Qaeda uses HP??? No? But a lot of major corporations with useful industrial secrets do, and a lot of governmental organizations do, and a lot of democratic and legal structures do.
Apparently Hillary thinks the same yet no Slashdot story on it.
Hillary Clinton: Stop helping terrorists, Silicon Valley
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...
Have heard this asserted before, but never really bothered looking it up. Had assumed tithes would be a datapoint in study, but nobody seems to mention it (even in my links). http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/pa... http://news.rice.edu/2012/05/3... https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.do... Looks like there's no difference between the two groups (generally).