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Law enforce­ment should be difficult

By on August 2, 2016 in Anonymity, Big Brother, Civil liberties, Cryptography, Hacktivism

“I think law enforce­ment should be difficult. And it should actually be possible to break the law.”

“Imagine if there were an alternate dystopian reality where law enforcement was 100 percent effective, such that any potential offenders knew they would be immediately identified, apprehended, and jailed,” he wrote. “How could people have decided that marijuana should be legal, if nobody had ever used it? How could states decide that same-sex marriage should be permitted?”

Wired: Meet Moxie Marlinspike, the Anarchist Bringing Encryption to All of Us »

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Meanwhile, in Russia…

By on August 1, 2016 in Cryptography, Russia

Russia’s intelligence agency the FSB, successor to the KGB, has posted a notice on its website claiming that it now has the ability to collect crypto keys for Internet services that use encryption. This meets a two-week deadline given by Vladimir Putin to the FSB to develop such a capability. However, no details have been provided of how the FSB is able to do this.

Ars Technica: Russian spies claim they can now collect crypto keys—but don’t say how »

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