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by coward76
1870 days ago
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The US wouldn't worry, and would make their own internet with hookers, blackjack, zero privacy, taxes, inane regulations and pork, but it would be US controlled. This is how Americans work. Edit: Downvote if you must but it is the mindset of many: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-53686390 |
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> "It's shocking," says Alan Woodward, a security expert based at the University of Surrey. "This is the Balkanisation of the internet happening in front of our eyes.
> "The US government has for a long time criticised other countries for controlling access to the internet… and now we see the Americans doing the same thing."
Previously, I saw Woodward giving bad information and engaging in unfounded speculation in an article about Signal - https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/technology-55412230.
> Alan Woodward, a professor of computer science at Surrey University, said Signal was "one of the most secure, if not the most secure, messenger service publicly available".
> "Signal employs end-to-end encryption, but goes further than apps like WhatsApp by obscuring metadata - who talked to who when and for how long," he explained.
> "Cellebrite seem to have been able to recover the decryption key, which seems extraordinary as they are usually very well protected on modern mobile devices."
> He added that if this was indeed true, it was no surprise Cellebrite would have altered its blog.
> "I suspect someone in authority told them to, or they realised they may have provided enough detail to allow others - who don't just supply to law-enforcement agencies - to achieve the same result."
A good rule of thumb might be, if you see Alan Woodward quoted in support of the article, assume the author doesn't know any genuine experts.