I can’t believe that people are so ignorant with this topic. It’s honestly mind boggling that people don’t have a clue that their information can be used and tampered with at any moments notice. I believe that what Snowden wanted was for the American people to know the truth and to be able to have a say with what happens to their information and their privacy. After watching people get interviewed and not even knowing that the government can do what they’ve been doing for years.. It’s crazy! I guess being an MIS major we’re aware of these things because we take classes such as this one, but I feel like everyone should know what’s going on with their information and really want to know how private, their privacy really is.
Article:
https://theintercept.com/2016/04/25/spy-chief-complains-that-edward-snowden-sped-up-spread-of-encryption-by-7-years/
This article talks about how Edward Snowden pretty much started the domino effect of encryption and how in the next few years there's a great possibility that encryption can be broken. He mentioned that the availability of encryption is so much more transparent people have been working around the clock trying to break in and have our information. This is so relevant to me, my peers, everyone and anyone who uses technology because once the encryption can be broken, we have nothing to protect us from people stealing anything they want from us; from text messages to emails and data. I think in order for our information to remain protected, there needs to be some new form of security and protection, much like the security and privacy that encryption has provided with us. This new form of security and protection must be much stronger and more secure than encryption so that it cannot be broken and deciphered. I’m not sure exactly what this entails but I hope that in the future, some new type of security is created so that we can be able keep our sense in privacy.
What you failed to mention about the article is that this is the same James Clapper, head of the NSA, who lied to Congress that the NSA was not doing any surveillance of US citizens. Of course his view of encryption is that they will break it, that Snowden did nothing but speed up the use of encryption from 7 years to 3 years. That makes no sense, but only points out how the NSA is not beaten by Snowden, that all encryption can be broken. Really? So, Mr. Clapper, are you saying that the NSA will go back to doing what they did before because... they can? And what evidence is there that the NSA can break all encryption? If that were true, why bother Apple?
ReplyDeleteOMG! You should read some of the 92 comments from the readers of this article to get a similar, but much more articulate response.
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