[Cryptography] And it goes on...

Perry E. Metzger perry at piermont.com
Sat Nov 28 09:15:20 EST 2015


I'm listening to a purported security "expert" (a professor at
Georgetown named Bruce Hoffman) explaining on NPR's Weekend Morning
Edition that the Paris attacks were possible because of encryption.

Scott Simon also fed him a question about whether this was all
because of Edward Snowden, which Prof. Hoffman of course ran with.

This "expert" is also claiming that there are diminished resources
these days for the anti-terrorism agencies (which is of course the
opposite of true.)

No attempt is being made to probe whether any of his claims are
correct. No actual communications security expert was brought in as a
counterpoint.

Perry
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