{"id":18364,"date":"2016-02-27T12:24:42","date_gmt":"2016-02-27T17:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=18364"},"modified":"2016-02-27T12:24:42","modified_gmt":"2016-02-27T17:24:42","slug":"fbi-vs-apple-establishes-a-new-phase-of-the-crypto-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=18364","title":{"rendered":"FBI vs. Apple Establishes a New Phase of the Crypto Wars"},"content":{"rendered":"
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FBI vs. Apple Establishes a New Phase of the Crypto Wars<\/a><\/h3>\n
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For over two decades, the battle between privacy-minded technologists and the U.S. government has primarily been over encryption. In the 1990s, in what became known as the Crypto Wars, the U.S. tried to limit powerful encryption \u2014 calling it as dangerous to export as sophisticated munitions \u2014 and eventually lost.<\/div>\n
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After the 2013 Snowden revelations, as mainstream technology companies started spreading encryption by putting it in popular consumer products, the wars erupted again. Law enforcement officials, led by FBI Director James Comey, loudly insisted that U.S. companies should build backdoors to break the encryption just for them.<\/p>\n

That won\u2019t happen because what these law enforcement officials are asking for isn\u2019t possible (any backdoor can be used by hackers, too) and wouldn\u2019t be effective (because encryption is widely available globally now). They\u2019ve succeeded in slowing the spread of unbreakable encryption by intimidating tech companies that might otherwise be rolling it out faster, but not much else.<\/p>\n

Indeed, as almost everyone else acknowledges, unbreakable encryption is here to stay.<\/p>\n

Tech privacy advocates continue to remain vigilant about encryption, actively pointing out the inadequacies and impossibilities of the anti-encryption movement, and jumping on any sign of backsliding.<\/p>\n

But even as they have stayed focused on defending encryption, the government has been shifting its focus to something else.<\/p>\n

The ongoing, very public dispute between Apple and the FBI, in fact, marks a key inflection point \u2014 at least as far as the public\u2019s understanding of the issue.<\/p>\n

You might say we\u2019re entering the Post-Crypto phase of the Crypto Wars.<\/p>\n

Think about it: The more we learn about the\u00a0FBI\u2019s demand\u00a0<\/a>that Apple help it hack into a password-protected iPhone, the more it looks like part of a concerted, long-term effort by the government to find new ways around unbreakable encryption \u2014 rather than try to break it.<\/p>\n

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