Creation of The Internet … Widely Regarded as a Bad Move?

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When an article requotes Douglas Adam’s with:

In the ’90s the Internet was created … This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

You get ready to read on [here]:

This relates to an extended blog post by Riana Pfefferkorn and which tries to make sense of the increasing requirement for encryption, and the tension that this causes law enforcement agencies, and with the draft EARN (Eliminating Abusive and Rampany Neglect of Interactive Technologies) Act of 2019 [here]:

Basically we have now reach a point where the rights of citizens to privacy is pitched against the rights of society to protect itself. With the every increasing problem of cybercrime, we must now fix the broken Internet we have created and build it properly, and with security at its core. This is done with data encryption, but this is increasingly closing the door on the ability to investigate data on devices. And so we see Police Scotland…

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Prof Bill Buchanan OBE FRSE
ASecuritySite: When Bob Met Alice

Professor of Cryptography. Serial innovator. Believer in fairness, justice & freedom. Based in Edinburgh. Old World Breaker. New World Creator. Building trust.