Crypto wars reloaded? Privacy technologies, cybersecurity ...
summary
Panel argues governments push for key access while major services roll out end-to-end tools and large-scale surveillance expands. Examples: PGP and Tor revive user protection; Silent Phone works as end-to-end voice with ephemeral keys but Silent Mail shutdown and LavaBit show legal pressure forces closures. Claims of 30–40 billion crypto units in devices contrast with poor end‑to‑end coverage, NIST RNG controversy and widespread metadata harvesting, and repeated success of targeted endpoint hacks that often bypass cryptography altogether.
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chapters (25)
- 0:00Introduction
- 3:10The decrypted paradox
- 11:12More enforcement of crypto
- 12:54Realtime communications
- 13:45Metadata
- 22:49Information sharing
- 24:56Network Information Security Directive
- 25:58The betrayal of trust
- 26:58The NSA
- 27:24Backlash mode
- 27:56Lack of trust
- 29:04NIST random number generator
- 30:00Making standards complex
- 31:28User interfaces are killer
- 32:24Trust models
- 32:59Selfdefense
- 35:54Secure telephony
- 40:42Phone security
- 43:10Is this a smokescreen
- 45:23Facebook
- 46:47Legal systems
- 53:52New powers
- 55:14Targeted surveillance
- 55:59Defining targeted surveillance
- 57:18German constitutional court decision
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