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24 Oct 2019
In the always interesting Lawfare blog, former FBI counsel Jim
Baker in a piece
called Rethinking
Encryption reiterates his take on the encrpytion debates. There's a certain
amount that makes me want to bang my head against the wall, e.g.
After working on the going dark problem for years, I'm confident
that this problem can be addressed from a technical perspective. In
most cases, it's just software, and software can be rewritten.
But it's worth reading to remind us of what the other side is
thinking, even with a lot of motivated reasoning that makes him
conclude that Congress can pass some laws and the going dark
problem will be solved.
A reader who is relatively new to this fight asked me is there's a short
and accessible explanation of why crypto back doors can't work.
See more ...
Stable link is https://jl.ly/Security/noback.html
21 May 2018
Bruce Schneier is a famous cryptography expert and
Orin Kerr a famous cyberlaw professor.
Together they've published a law journal
article on
Encryption Workarounds.
It's intended for lawyers so it's quite accessible to
non-technical readers.
See more ...
Stable link is https://jl.ly/Security/encwork.html
26 Aug 2017
A recent article
in the New York Times Dealbook column reported on phone number hijacking, in which a
bad guy fraudulently takes over someone's mobile phone number and used it to
reset credentials and drain the victim's account.
It happens a lot, even to
the chief technologist of the FTC.
This reminds us that security is hard, and understanding two factor authentication is
harder than it seems.
The usual definition of two-factor is to pick two different items from
a list of security types:
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Stable link is https://jl.ly/Security/2fphone.html
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