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File Encryption - now effectively outlawed in the US?
Deozaan:
I think I am going to have to start making file encryption apps. 8)
-c.gingerich (March 31, 2017, 08:56 AM)
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How can we be sure that components/libraries/tools we use don't have backdoors?
-y2kusuma (April 01, 2017, 11:06 PM)
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You can't. But using open source standards (read: tools, libraries, and tools) should help alleviate those concerns.
wraith808:
I think I am going to have to start making file encryption apps. 8)
-c.gingerich (March 31, 2017, 08:56 AM)
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How can we be sure that components/libraries/tools we use don't have backdoors?
-y2kusuma (April 01, 2017, 11:06 PM)
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You can't. But using open source standards (read: tools, libraries, and tools) should help alleviate those concerns.
-Deozaan (April 02, 2017, 12:23 AM)
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What seems to be missing is that it's not the tools, it's the laws. If you have a tool without any backdoors or defects in security, if they can make you face indefinite detention if you don't decrypt it, your choices are limited.
Deozaan:
Not only that, but it seems the FBI can arrest and charge you for hacking even if you never hacked anybody:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/03/31/fbi-arrests-hacker-who-hacked-no-one.html
wraith808:
Not only that, but it seems the FBI can arrest and charge you for hacking even if you never hacked anybody:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/03/31/fbi-arrests-hacker-who-hacked-no-one.html
-Deozaan (April 02, 2017, 11:25 AM)
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That is insane! And chilling in the same way that the ruling against Blurred Lines is. Just like there are only so many combinations of notes and it's very likely that one song is going to sound remotely like something else, and it's possible that it could sound very close to something else, it's possible, no matter how innocuous the software, that there will be some way someone with a will and a way is going to turn it negative.
app103:
Not only that, but it seems the FBI can arrest and charge you for hacking even if you never hacked anybody:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/03/31/fbi-arrests-hacker-who-hacked-no-one.html
-Deozaan (April 02, 2017, 11:25 AM)
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That is as ridiculous as holding the CEO of the Post cereal company responsible, if someone goes out and buys a box of Grape Nuts cereal, pours it into a sock, and beats someone to death with it. (aka a cereal killer)
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