Shedding Light on ‘Going Dark’: Practical Approaches to the Encryption Challenge.
WHEN: Wednesday, February 24, 2016 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. ET
WHERE: Bipartisan Policy Center, 1225 Eye Street NW, Suite 1000, Washington, DC, 20005
From the post:
The spate of terrorist attacks last year, especially those in Paris and San Bernardino, raised the specter of terrorists using secure digital communications to evade intelligence and law enforcement agencies and, in the words of FBI Director James Comey, “go dark.” The same technologies that companies use to keep Americans safe when they shop online and communicate with their friends and family on the Internet are the same technologies that terrorists and criminals exploit to disguise their illicit activity.
In response to this challenge, House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-TX) and Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA), a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, have proposed a national commission on security and technology challenges in the digital age. The commission would bring together experts who understand the complexity and the stakes to develop viable recommendations on how to balance competing digital security priorities.
Please join the Bipartisan Policy Center on February 24 for a conversation with the two lawmakers as they roll out their legislation creating the McCaul-Warner Digital Security Commission followed by a panel discussion highlighting the need to take action on this critical issue.
Ironically, I won’t be able to watch the live streaming of this event because:
The video you are trying to watch is using the HTTP Live Streaming protocol which is only support in iOS devices.
Any discussion of privacy or First Amendment rights must begin without the presumption that any balancing or trade-off is necessary.
While it is true that some trade-offs have been made in the past, the question that should begin the anti-encryption discussion is whether terrorism is any more than a fictional threat or not?
Since 9/11, it has been 5278 days without a terrorist being sighted at a U.S. airport.
One explanation for those numbers is the number of terrorists in the United States is extremely small.
The FBI routinely takes advantage of people suffering from mental illness to create terrorist “threats,” which the FBI then eliminates. So those arrests should be removed from the showing of “terrorists” in our midst.
Before any discussion of “balancing” take place, challenge the need for balancing at all.
PS: Find someone with an unhacked iOS device on which to watch this presentation.
I first saw this in a post by Cory Doctorow, U.S. lawmakers expected to introduce major encryption bill.