{"id":27992,"date":"2017-11-15T07:37:15","date_gmt":"2017-11-15T12:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=27992"},"modified":"2017-11-15T07:37:15","modified_gmt":"2017-11-15T12:37:15","slug":"the-government-is-lying-to-us-about-cybersecurity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=27992","title":{"rendered":"The Government Is Lying to Us About Cybersecurity"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Government Is Lying to Us About Cybersecurity<\/a><\/h3>\n
The Department of Justice is full of excuses for wanting back doors into encryption systems, but they’re just that: excuses.<\/div>\n
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In a press conference, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein stated <\/a>that the \u201cabsolutist position\u201d that strong encryption should be, by definition, unbreakable is \u201cunreasonable.\u201d<\/p>\n

The DOJ is lying about three things:<\/span><\/p>\n

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The US government works against the security of businesses. Just this week, I had to\u00a0tell Apple<\/a>\u00a0that my iPhone app did not have certain kinds of encryption that the U.S. government has export control on. Encryption export controls cripple the security and innovation of software products made by American businesses.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Furthermore, the U.S. government\u00a0hoards software exploits<\/a>\u00a0so it can hack into your computer rather than publish them that so companies can patch their products. The NSA\u00a0intentionally sneaks weaknesses into protocols<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0bribes businesses to add holes to security products<\/a>\u00a0so it can steal the data of their customers.<\/p>\n

The only \u201ccybersecurity\u201d that the government cares about is its ability to conduct surveillance\u00a0and attacks on political targets. <\/span><\/p>\n

When businesses want to improve the security of their products, they offer rewards for exploits \u2013\u00a0Microsoft pays up to $250,000 per exploit<\/a>, Facebook\u00a0has paid $40,000<\/a>, and so on. The NSA\u00a0purchases millions of dollars of exploits<\/a>\u00a0from hackers and uses them to\u00a0spy on the entire world, including U.S. citizens<\/a>. Unfortunately, the NSA is incompetent at keeping secrets<\/a>, so it\u00a0lost their exploit database<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0caused millions of computers to be infected and hijacked with the exploits they hoarded<\/a>.The hardware and software pieces of both the Internet and individual user\u2019s computers are made by private companies. There is nothing the U.S. government can do to improve \u201ccybersecurity\u201d other than prosecuting criminal behavior.\u00a0 However, the U.S. government prosecutes a\u00a0minuscule\u00a0proportion of cybercrime<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The Government Is Lying to Us About Cybersecurity The Department of Justice is full of excuses for wanting back doors into encryption systems, but they’re just that: excuses. In a press conference, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein stated that the \u201cabsolutist position\u201d that strong encryption should be, by definition, unbreakable is \u201cunreasonable.\u201d The DOJ is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3229,16994,3897,17028,14991,17029,2148,577,746,786,827],"class_list":["post-27992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-cybersecurity","tag-david-l-veksler","tag-doj","tag-encryption-exploits","tag-foundation-for-economic-education","tag-government-lying","tag-hacking","tag-nsa","tag-spying","tag-technology","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27992"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27993,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27992\/revisions\/27993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}