[ NNSquad ] Cyberwar - Privacy May Be a Victim in Cyberdefense Plan

[Lauren Weinstein <lauren@vortex.com>]

Cyberwar - Privacy May Be a Victim in Cyberdefense Plan 

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/13/us/politics/13cyber.html


Any "cyberdefense" plan that depends on the inspection of
unencrypted traffic (particularly e-mail) for the indefinite
future is likely to be increasingy marginalized by continuing
deployments of pervasive encryption.

This leads me to wonder how long it will be (assuming it isn't
happening already) before governments demand even more intrusive
surveillance capabilties be built directly into PCs, routers, CPU and
peripheral chips, and so on, to allow for easily remotely enabled
keylogging and capture of passwords, encryption keys, and the like.
          
--Lauren--
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