The President of the United States visited Austin last week to talk about technology and innovation at SXSW this year. It was a historic visit, marking the first time a sitting president attended the event. His appearance certainly helped to cement that legacy as the leading 'Tech President' Leader of the Government in a new era of technology, having started the digital service in the United States to upgrade the antiquated technology that was in place when came to power.
However, such a president of tech-savvy, it is worrying to many it seems not fully grasp the importance of strong encryption. Speaking to a crowd of more than 2,000 technology enthusiasts, Obama said: "If, in technology, it is possible to make a device or an impenetrable system where encryption is so strong that he does there is no key, no door at all, so how do we apprehend the pornographer? How can we disrupt a terrorist plot? "His comments seemed to call for some kind of compromise. Addressing the issue in a diplomatic way, he said firmly," I would caution against taking an absolutist perspective on this. "Indirectly referring to the FBI vs Apple case, President Obama said that if the government has no way in a smartphone "so everyone walks around with a Swiss bank account in your pocket."
the technology community has been Quick to respond to his comments, with Congressman Darrell Issa stating "There is no way to create a special key for the government that could not be exploited by the Russians, the Chinese, or other who want to have access to sensitive information that we all carry in our pockets every day. "Matt Blaze, a professor of computer science and cryptography researcher at the University of Pennsylvania, agrees on the controversy, saying it was a waste of time to assume that people will not flow abroad is encrypted products: "try to put a mandate on the encryption software is really quite desperate, it will not prevent people to use open software source or foreign-made software, even in the United States. "
Golden Frog has us believe in the importance of strong encryption, unbreakable. That's why we create products like VyprVPN to help increase the security of online users. In fact, we organized a SXSW panel on the encryption of this year, with speakers such as Congressman Will Hurd, which weighed on the question of the excessive reach of the government: "All enforcement agency law has no right to tell a company what to do. Period. "
While continuing battle encryption, we'll be sure to keep our eyes on the complex issue at hand, and we will continue to stand with Apple in their fight against the FBI.
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