Perspective
Apr. 30, 2016
Yet another attack on encryption
Security experts have agreed that a "unicorn system" that is both secure and open to law enforcement simply isn't plausible. By Nate Cardozo
Nate Cardozo
Staff Attorney
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Nate is on the EFF's digital civil liberties team, focusing on free speech and privacy litigation, and was the 2009-10 Open Government Legal Fellow. He works on EFF's "Who Has Your Back?" report and Coders' Rights Project, and has projects involving automotive privacy, government transparency, hardware hacking rights, anonymous speech, electronic privacy law reform, Freedom of Information Act litigation, and resisting the expansion of the surveillance state.
Recent attempts by the government and lawmakers to weaken encryption are dangerous, cynical and show a lack of basic understanding about safety and security in the digital world. The good news is that these ill-conceived and overreaching tactics have, at least so far, failed. But better yet, they've actually galvanized citizens and the tech industry to take action to ensure that the use of encryption ? which protects us, our device...
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