[bestbits] New article on Cybersecurity and Human Rights

[rysiek]

Dnia wtorek, 24 listopada 2015 08:20:38 David Cake pisze:
> Of course its not a new idea for people to be in control over their own data
> - but I think Andrew and Lea make a valuable contribution here in
> eloquently making the argument that privacy rights and being in control
> over your own data is not just a right to be protected (that might then be
> understood to sometimes be in conflict with national security), but rather
> in the internet world of porous borders an absolutely intrinsic part of
> national security. We need to strongly express the argument in the
> cybersecurity debate that any proposal to weaken individual privacy and
> security in the name of ‘national security’ (such as data retention or mass
> surveillance proposals, and absolutely efforts to weaken access to
> encryption or mandate ‘backdoors’) is misguided and actually weakens
> national security in a very meaningful way.

I find this text succint and very to the point here:
https://nadim.computer/2015/11/23/on-encryption-and-terrorists.html

The author is the original developer behind CryptoCat:
https://crypto.cat/

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Pozdrawiam,
Michał "rysiek" Woźniak

Zmieniam klucz GPG :: http://rys.io/pl/147
GPG Key Transition :: http://rys.io/en/147
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