Going dark
Going darkJust as the threat of terrorism is increasing, the ability of Western security agencies to defeat it is declining OVER the past decade Western security agencies have been remarkably successful in keeping jihadist terrorists at bay. Put it down to diligence, surveillance technology, financial resources, the manageable numbers of potential terrorists and, often, good luck. The spooks have
Cryptography for dummies
Cryptography for dummiesTo the alarm of some lawmakers, scrambling data becomes easy as encryption turns into the default option on digital devices A CAMPAIGN by American and British lawmakers and security officials to get social-media companies to take more responsibility for handing over information about criminals and terrorists using their networks gathered pace this week. It is happening beca
The spy who hacked me
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Google is researching ways to make encryption easier to use in Gmail
Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More In response to Edward Snowden’s mass surveillance revelations, Google is working to make complex encryption tools, such as PGP, easier to use in Gmail. PGP, or Pretty Good Privacy, is an encryption utility that historically has been difficult to break. But Google has “rese
Cracked credibility
Cracked credibilityTo be safe, the internet needs reliable encryption. But the standards, software and hardware it uses are vulnerable INTELLIGENCE agencies exist to steal secrets, and necessarily break other countries’ laws to do so. Much of the brouhaha around the disclosures by Edward Snowden, a fugitive systems administrator from America’s National Security Agency now living in Russia, misses
The digital arms trade
The digital arms tradeThe market for software that helps hackers penetrate computer systems IT IS a type of software sometimes described as “absolute power” or “God”. Small wonder its sales are growing. Packets of computer code, known as “exploits”, allow hackers to infiltrate or even control computers running software in which a design flaw, called a “vulnerability”, has been discovered. Criminal
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