<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 4:49 PM, Matthias Wulfeck <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:matthias.wulfeck@gmail.com" target="_blank">matthias.wulfeck@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>> "Do you want the government to have free access to your phone"?<span style="font-weight:bold"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-weight:bold"><br></span></div>> "I don't have anything to hide. They can look at they want."<div><span style="font-weight:bold"><br></span></div>I'm sure many of us who have tried to explain the backdoor problem to their friends and family have heard this response to the question </div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>How many friends understand parallel reconstruction?<br><br>How many understand that the judicial system is a contest</div><div>between storytellers? Yes there are rules but the suspension</div><div>of disbelief is central to modern storytelling to the point that all</div><div>media marketing depends on it. i.e. the jury of your peers has</div><div>been conditioned to accept fantacy on a daily basis.</div><div><br></div><div> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspension_of_disbelief">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspension_of_disbelief</a> <br></div><br>More importantly most schools eliminate debate or religate debate or restrict it to a rarified few<br>to the point that it is the uncommon teacher that can coach and judge a quality debate.</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">The debate lesson learned when two sides of a fabrication have at it and a winner</div><div class="gmail_quote">declared is eye opening when both are championing a total fabrication.<br><br>In the case of Apple and the FBI there is an important line in the WP article:<br></div></div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px">"However, there are authors, movie writers, and show producers who tend to </span></div><div class="gmail_quote"><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px">actually believe in their stories rather than suspending disbelief."</span></div><div class="gmail_quote"><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px"><br></span></div></div></blockquote><font color="#252525" face="sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px">My most recent insight I have had in this is that some principals in this </span></font><div><font color="#252525" face="sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px">are anchored in a them vs. us contest mindset.<br>This is insufficient in a global market context.<br>With global products and global deployments of hardware and software the exact same </span></font><div><font color="#252525" face="sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px">tools apply to both sides. Our problems are their problems, their problems are our</span></font></div><div><font color="#252525" face="sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px">problems. <br><br>This global symmetry and equality for commerce and citizens recolors the </span></font></div><div><font color="#252525" face="sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px">notion of "never say anything" when a flaw, bug or attack is discovered.<br>The attack that might be held tightly as a nut of power is in reality also</span></font></div><div><font color="#252525" face="sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px">a vulnerability to the same side that thinks of it as power.<br><br>Thinking back on Purple and Enigma -- we did not have to discard</span></font></div><div><font color="#252525" face="sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px">our Enigma machines once we discovered a way to read Enigma and</span></font></div><div><font color="#252525" face="sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px">Purple messages. This was a context where never say anything applied</span></font></div><div><font color="#252525" face="sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px">to methods and capabilities. For the billions of people on the globe this<br></span></font><div class="gmail_extra">is no longer the case because we all use the same subset of possible tools.<br>Open source, global products, stackexchange, ....<br><br>In a global context with the long reach of criminals any exploit is also</div><div class="gmail_extra">a liability and vulnerability to the home front. <br><br>Analysis of an individual flaw colors this. If and only if the vector of the attack</div><div class="gmail_extra">can be blocked and managed would one say nothing and do nothing.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">So on the global Internet "see something, say something".<br><br>Re Purple: First there was the Red code, then the Blue code then</div><div class="gmail_extra">red+blue ==> Purple.<br>Today... the issue is simply muddy Brown.<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"> T o m M i t c h e l l</div></div>
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