[Cryptography] Washington Post op ed by Apple's Craig Federighi

John Young jya at pipeline.com
Mon Mar 7 10:01:55 EST 2016


At 09:37 AM 3/7/2016, you wrote:
>Apple's Craig Federighi explains in the Washington Post that 
>encryption is about security, not merely privacy, and that rolling 
>back security is a very bad idea. 
>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/apple-vp-the-fbi-wants-to-roll-back-safeguards-that-keep-us-a-step-ahead-of-criminals/2016/03/06/cceb0622-e3d1-11e5-a6f3-21ccdbc5f74e_story.html 
>We need more people to be emphasizing this point. Perry -- Perry E. Metzger

Yes, why Snowden will not release defensive documents ("to prevent 
harm to US"), only offensive. This distorts and biases NSA capability 
stories by design. However, one ex-NSA dissident warns if Snowden 
releases deepest (presumably defensive) technology "he should be shot."




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