{"id":6271,"date":"2015-03-07T07:18:15","date_gmt":"2015-03-07T12:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=6271"},"modified":"2015-03-07T07:18:15","modified_gmt":"2015-03-07T12:18:15","slug":"by-demanding-backdoors-to-encryption-u-s-government-is-undermining-global-freedom-and-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=6271","title":{"rendered":"By Demanding Backdoors to Encryption, U.S. Government is Undermining Global Freedom and Security"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"post-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/libertyblitzkrieg.com\/2015\/03\/06\/by-demanding-backdoors-to-encryption-the-u-s-government-is-undermining-global-freedom-and-security\/\" target=\"_blank\">By Demanding Backdoors to Encryption, U.S. Government is Undermining Global Freedom and Security<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>One of the biggest debates happening at\u00a0the intersection of technology and privacy at the moment revolves around\u00a0the U.S. government\u2019s fear\u00a0that the American peasantry may gain access to strong encryption in order to protect\u00a0their private communications. Naturally, this isn\u2019t something Big Brother wants to see, and the \u201csolution\u201d proposed by the status quo revolves around forcing technology companies to provide a way for the state to have access to all secure communications when they deem it necessary.<\/p>\n<p>Many technology experts have come out strongly against this plan. Leaving aside the potential civil liberties implications of giving the lawless maniacs in political\u00a0control\u00a0such power, there\u2019s the notion that if you create access for one group of entitled people, you weaken overall security. Not to mention the fact that if the U.S. claims the right to such privileged access, all other countries will demand the same in return, thus undermining global privacy rights and technology safeguards.<\/p>\n<p>We are already seeing this play out in embarrassing fashion. Once again highlighting American hypocrisy and shortsightedness, as well as demonstrating\u00a0that the U.S. government does\u2019t actually stand for anything, other than the notion that \u201cmight means right.\u201d Sad.<\/p>\n<p>From\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/read\/the-united-states-is-angry-that-china-wants-crypto-backdoors-too\"><em>Motherboard<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>When the US demands technology companies install backdoors for law enforcement, it\u2019s okay. But when China demands the same, it\u2019s a whole different story.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Demanding Backdoors to Encryption, U.S. Government is Undermining Global Freedom and Security One of the biggest debates happening at\u00a0the intersection of technology and privacy at the moment revolves around\u00a0the U.S. government\u2019s fear\u00a0that the American peasantry may gain access to strong encryption in order to protect\u00a0their private communications. Naturally, this isn\u2019t something Big Brother wants [&hellip;]<\/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":[3975,2472,3976,3974,261,483,652,765,786],"class_list":["post-6271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-backdoor-access","tag-big-brother","tag-data-surveillance","tag-decryption","tag-encryption","tag-liberty-2","tag-privacy","tag-surveillance","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6271","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=6271"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6272,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6271\/revisions\/6272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}