Post Syndicated from Bruce Schneier original https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/02/documents-about-the-nsas-banning-of-furby-toys-in-the-1990s.html
Via a FOIA request, we have documents from the NSA about their banning of Furby toys. 404 Media has the story.
EDITED TO ADD: The documents are now on Archive.org.
Post Syndicated from Bruce Schneier original https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/10/child-exploitation-and-the-crypto-wars.html
Susan Landau published an excellent essay on the current justification for the government breaking end-to-end-encryption: child sexual abuse and exploitation (CSAE). She puts the debate into historical context, discusses the problem of CSAE, and explains why breaking encryption isn’t the solution.
Post Syndicated from Bruce Schneier original https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2022/01/uk-government-to-launch-pr-campaign-undermining-end-to-end-encryption.html
Rolling Stone is reporting that the UK government has hired the M&C Saatchi advertising agency to launch an anti-encryption advertising campaign. Presumably they’ll lean heavily on the “think of the children!” rhetoric we’re seeing in this current wave of the crypto wars. The technical eavesdropping mechanisms have shifted to client-side scanning, which won’t actually help — but since that’s not really the point, it’s not argued on its merits.
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