This article was originally published on the Daily Dot
on Sunday Yokubaitis
last week, FBI Director James Comey again campaigned for "backdoors" in the high-tech enterprises encryption programs.
"Tech execs say privacy should be the paramount virtue," he said in the House of Representatives Appropriations Committee. "When I hear it, I close my eyes and try to imagine what the world looks like where pedophiles can not be seen, the kidnappers can not be seen, [and] drug traffickers can not be seen. "
the US government playing to fear, uncertainty and doubt. the reality is that the government already collects a huge amount of personal data on its citizens through our location data phones give away, the national security Agency program metadata and purchasing habits online without our consent.
Encryption is how privacy-conscious Internet users to fight against the eye impassive mass government surveillance and protection online. Even if the NSA can break some encryption technologies, we at least make it more difficult and more expensive for them to follow citizens law-abiding mass . When Comey application backdoors, it's really just asking to do its job easier with questionable benefits and serious risks.
We must protect encryption because backdoors are inherently insecure.
A backdoor is a security vulnerability deliberately introduced into an otherwise secure ecosystem. The Federal Bureau of Investigation is trying to divert the public into believing in the existence of some, abuse-proof backdoor secured by magic. This may be theoretically possible; However, in the real world, it's just not. Make encryption correctly is hard enough without Comey or backdoors asking the NSA. Although most accomplished experts in cryptography that I will tell you that there is no such thing as a secure backdoor.
Backdoors are based on knowledge. He who knows the secret can blow open the secret door, but the door does not care who knows the secret blow. The problem with secrets is that they eventually become known outside their circle planned. If the FBI (or someone else) had all backdoors in encryption technologies, they would become the target of every spy agency and malicious hacker on the planet. After the coup the secret was hacked, leaked accidentally posted, or made known by sheer incompetence, anyone FBI or otherwise-could use.
We already have evidence that backdoors built for the good guys are commonly used by the bad guys. In 2010, Chinese hackers subverted a Google Gmail system designed to meet the US government surveillance requests. The bad guys can and do steal the gold key.
Imagine, despite everything the experts tell us that somehow it was possible to design a back door that would open encryption without being exploited by hackers and criminals. We would still be to thank you from the FBI and the NSA, organizations have access and analyze the data of its citizens without their knowledge and without trial.
Encryption is not an obstacle to national security. Golden Frog, where I serve as president, and others in the tech community who care about in online privacy, are not anti-law enforcement. We are not interested in jeopardizing national security. We believe in protecting the customers who rely on us for their Internet connection, ensuring that the data they send and receive is encrypted and protected from prying eyes. This data belongs to them; it is their property. It is not for us, an Internet service provider, or the government.
The government did not need a golden key to decrypt it. If you want the data, do not ask for a back door. Instead, get a warrant and go through the door. We need due process, probable cause, a real judge, and not a money backdoors.
When Comey talking about encryption, it sounded as if the bad guys use a great tool to avoid detection by law enforcement. This is a perception that we all need to work together for change. Using encryption does not mean that you have something to hide
In the South last year by the Conference Interactive Southwest, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden said: "Encryption works"
[It is true. It is a best practice to give you a reasonable level of privacy and online security. encryption is a form of self-defense. Privacy-conscious people use it to protect their internet communications and private information from hackers and the government and the intrusion of the company. the companies encrypt confidential information such as trade secrets and customer data.
If you encrypt your digital communications, you should be celebrated. you are the good fight. you should not draw suspicion FBI or NSA. in the same way that firearms are synonymous with second amendment and protect yourself, using encryption to protect your data should be a fundamental right. Encryption is the second amendment to the Internet.
Sunday Yokubaitis is the president of Golden Frog, a company that fights for online privacy and open a free and safe Internet for people worldwide.
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