[messaging] Crypto standards in modern-day consumer apps

[Karl]

On Sun, Jun 21, 2020, 2:08 AM Peter Gutmann <pgut001 at cs.auckland.ac.nz>
wrote:

> Mike Hearn <mike at plan99.net> writes:
>
> >
> https://www.irishnews.com/news/northernirelandnews/2020/06/20/news/wave-of-arrests-after-breach-of-encrypted-communication-network-1980136/
>
> I like the lawyer's comments:
>
>   The concerning feature here is the absolute dearth of press reporting and
>   media attention in respect of a massive wholesale breach of an encrypted
>   communication platform.
>
> How dare the media not notify the criminals that their communications have
> been compromised!
>

Just to address this, the arrests mentioned were "conspiracy" and the
evidence collection involved massive compromise of the phone OSs
themselves.  Over here, discussing ideas in private is not a crime, but
using malware to control a community is.

As laws get more oppressive we also don't want to assume that breaking them
is a bad thing when they aren't themselves good.  Civil rights over here
were only made by civil disobedience, which landed many in jail and some in
prison for life.

Karl Semich


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