see url:
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/31/backdoors_uk_home_affairs_committee/
We leave huge digital paper trails, but biz can still do more
Quote<<<
The UK's former independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, David Anderson,
told the House of Commons Home Affairs
Committee<http://www.parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/fff8431e-1b8f-43fb-93a0-cb42623e8c3f>
that there are plenty of new sources of information for law enforcement to get
their hands on, rather than banging the drum for backdoors.
In what has now become a frustratingly standard
question<https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/06/05/theresa_may_encryption_plans_slammed/>
from politicians about tech companies' role in the war on terror, Anderson was
asked if he thought the state would ever get access to encrypted messages for
security purposes.
"No," he replied. "Because end-to-end encryption is not only a fact of life, it
is, on balance, a desirable fact of life. Any of us who do our banking online,
for example, are very grateful for end-to-end encryption."
The debate, Anderson continued, was sometimes wrongly "portrayed in very black
and white terms, as if the world is going dark and because of end-to-end
encryption we're all doomed".
He argued that although the loss of information the state can gather from the
content of someone's communications is "very significant", it is tempered by
the mass of other data it can slurp from elsewhere.>>>end of quote.
Interesting article on data slurping aiding and abetting law enforcement on the
catching of criminals, (such as fitbit...:-)) rather than creating back doors
to end to end encryption. Nuffink better than a bit of common sense. I doubt
if the politicians will listen to it though...too interested in getting and
keeping power, and can't see the wood for the trees...
ATB
Dougie.
