Schneier on Security: Wiretapping the Internet

Wiretapping the Internet - Schneier on Security by Bruce Schneier (schneier.com)

Any surveillance system invites both criminal appropriation and government abuse. Function creep is the most obvious abuse: New police powers, enacted to fight terrorism, are already used in situations of conventional nonterrorist crime. Internet surveillance and control will be no different.

Securosis Blog | Proposed Internet Wiretapping Law Fundamentally Incompatible with Security

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To allow a communications service to decrypt messages, they will need an alternative decryption key (master key). This means that anyone with access to that key has access to the communications. No matter how well the system is architected, this provides a single point of security failure within organizations and companies that don’t have the best security track record to begin with. That’s not FUD — it’s hard technical reality.

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