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Attorney General William Barr on Encryption Policy

Schneier on Security

If the choice is between a world where we can achieve a 99 percent assurance against cyber threats to consumers, while still providing law enforcement 80 percent of the access it might seek; or a world, on the other hand, where we have boosted our cybersecurity to 99.5 I wrote about all this, and more, in 2013.).

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Attorney General Barr and Encryption

Schneier on Security

If the choice is between a world where we can achieve a 99 percent assurance against cyber threats to consumers, while still providing law enforcement 80 percent of the access it might seek; or a world, on the other hand, where we have boosted our cybersecurity to 99.5 I wrote about all this, and more, in 2013.).

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The War in Technology: A Digital Iron Curtain Goes Up

SecureWorld News

And it might have been prepared for this moment, years ago, as a surveillance tool. It's easy to put surveillance on telecoms if you have a foothold," Kubecka said. In 2013, the Russian security agency, FSB, demanded that I provide them the private data of the Ukrainian users of VK who were protesting against a pro-Russian President.

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US is forcing companies to install backdoors says China

CyberSecurity Insiders

For the first time in the past two years, the Ministry of China has disclosed that US is posing as a cyber threat to entities operating on its soil and has added that the Biden led nation is forcing companies to install backdoors to get user data- a clear cut violation of data privacy rules existing across the world.