[Cryptography] Apple: graphically show users that they are under attack

[Matthias Wulfeck]

> It's hard to realize that you're on a battlefield when you can't hear the
bullets whizzing around your head.

I can't help but feel this will easily backfire. If we all lament the loss
of liberty for security, it seems fear is incongruous with a free society.
When people are scared they begin making trade-offs.

I've spoken to a few people about this. The general response I hear is "I
don't have anything to hide so why block the government?" I find most
people are generally in favor of giving the government a backdoor into
their phone. Or rather, they aren't scared of it.


Matt

On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 4:09 PM, Natanael <natanael.l at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Den 25 feb 2016 23:40 skrev "Henry Baker" <hbaker1 at pipeline.com>:
> >
> > I was trying to describe the Apple situation to a non-techie yesterday,
> and I thought of a change that Apple/Google/etc. should make ASAP. The
> reason why most people don't fear govt surveillance and are willing to give
> up encryption is that they don't realize that they (their phones &
> computers) are *already* under constant attack. It's hard to realize that
> you're on a battlefield when you can't hear the bullets whizzing around
> your head.
> >
> > Apple needs to incorporate some sort of visual "meter" or other display
> icon that indicates when their phone is being scanned and when someone is
> trying to crack their passcode, their SSH login, etc. In addition to
> attacks on your particular phone, Apple might also have a threat meter
> indicating attacks on iPhone's in general.
>
> > A few pictures of fallen comrades whose iPhones have been hacked would
> also help drive the point home.
>
> Like using your contact lists to allow you to tell your friends about
> things like attempted hack attempts against you, both successful and
> failed? Showing numbers and graphs for what kind of digital malice that has
> hit their own social circle? Subpoena / NSL counts for your extended
> circles?
>
> Essentially making electronic security warnings a social phenomenon?
>
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