Re:Tim Berners-Lee: Spies' cracking of encryption undermines...
by Zigurd on Tuesday December 03, 2013 @10:14AM
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> Internet security is hard
And among the hard things is the fact that you can't have it both ways. In TBL's case this means he has to realize that DRM is Big Brother Inside. Standardizing DRM means building a standard framework for back doors. You can't be an enabler for the big entertainment companies without being an enabler for snooping.
Many security experts have not faced the fact that they cannot protect their users from state actors and still be deputized by the same state in crime-fighting. The only way to protect the user is to put the user's data out of reach of both spies and police. The security priesthood is easily co-opted and turned into witting and unwitting tools.
And among the hard things is the fact that you can't have it both ways. In TBL's case this means he has to realize that DRM is Big Brother Inside. Standardizing DRM means building a standard framework for back doors. You can't be an enabler for the big entertainment companies without being an enabler for snooping.
Many security experts have not faced the fact that they cannot protect their users from state actors and still be deputized by the same state in crime-fighting. The only way to protect the user is to put the user's data out of reach of both spies and police. The security priesthood is easily co-opted and turned into witting and unwitting tools.