Yesterday, President of Golden Frog Sunday Yokubaitis and co-founder Ron Yokubaitis participated in Q & A discussion with Edward Snowden at SXSW . The invitation-only meeting with about 25 technology leaders was a chance for technological and Snowden community to talk about the things we need to do to improve cybersecurity and fight against government surveillance.
The Verge wrote a beautiful reminder of the event, but here are some highlights that might interest the readers of this blog:
What's next VPN technology
Sunday brought personal VPN services and asked, "what products or services should we build to fill the gaps in the current policy?" Snowden replied that the VPN providers need to develop new technologies to hide their services to VPN traffic can not be identified as being encrypted. He also said that we need more efforts to randomization other services so that we, as a community of technology can overcome monitoring at the network level. Snowden's suggestion was very encouraging because Golden Frog has already built our own VPN technology called Chameleon that is already what Snowden described so that people around the world can overcome the deep pack inspection tactics Great Firewall and other monitoring efforts. So we were delighted that Snowden validated our existing efforts!
Tech vs. Policy Tech Innovation
Much of the discussion focused on the politics of technology to fight against government surveillance. But Snowden stressed that the technology industry needs to build products and services to protect people. If you are waiting for the government to protect you, you'll probably be waiting a very long time.
This is why we founded Golden Frog in 09. Before 09, we spent a good amount of time talking with lawmakers about the need for better privacy laws and updates. Finally, after becoming frustrated with the legislative and regulatory process, we lost confidence that the policy would provide the solutions that we all need. We were happy that Snowden validated the mission of Golden Frog to build the tools that Internet users will need to protect themselves online without waiting for the policy to protect us.
Encryption Works
There are no secret NSA is actively trying to break encryption. Snowden said we encrypt, the more expensive it is for the government to collect data. Even the NSA budget constraints, and the more money we make them go to get our data, the easier it will become to keep their current programs.
Speaking of encryption, predictable Snowden also criticized the government's proposals that enable organizations like the NSA and FBI backdoors in our networks. Snowden correctly noted backdoors will create insecurity and "China jump at the chance" if we decide to create encryption backdoors. We agree, it is quite difficult to Encryption properly without the government asks us to build on our servers intentionally vulnerabilities.
There is a way the government can actually help
Snowden also said that many safety critical solutions to cyber infrastructure, things like SSL libraries are funded by voluntary investment in time - and thus massive security holes. We need to be more proactive in plug these holes. He urged the government and the big tech companies, to create a fund for research on security vulnerabilities.
This was a great experience participating in the Q & A and gratifying to hear the kind of things we do in Golden Frog are consistent with the direction he believes the technology community must .
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