The unintended consequences of security theatre imposed on airline travel is replicated in the security theatre of mass online state surveillance – also supposedly for our protection against terrorists, but whose indiscriminate application has encouraged tech firms to improve encryption for perfectly legitimate non-terrorists, making surveillance of any real threat more difficult rather than less.
A European police chief says the sophisticated online communications are the biggest problem for security agencies tackling terrorism…
"[Tech firms] are doing it, I suppose, because of a commercial imperative driven by what they perceive to be consumer demand for greater privacy of their communications."
Ya think?
[Hat tip Duncan B.]
1 comment:
Yes good PC. Since reading you recently , I always consider now; the law of unintended consequences .
I am a stray dog biting . I must be more careful, and I will be; but not too much; otherwise a simple castrate..
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