Dave Howe’s Comments

• Jun 25th, 2020 @ 5:42am

  Re: leakage

  on Senators Launch Full On Nuclear War Against Encryption: Bill Will Require Broken Encryption, Putting Everyone At Risk
  No need for it to "leak" - China have already said in the past they will be getting in line for a copy of any lawful access key, so that their police forces can lawfully use it as an alternative to lawfully beating the password out of their citizens.
• Jun 4th, 2015 @ 7:29am

  You would think..

  on Documents Show DEA Running Ever-Increasing Number Of Wiretap Applications Through Friendlier Local Courts
  That like the lawyers challenging mobile phone intercept data, lawyers that suspect the FBI have done an "end run" around their wiretap process would challenge that evidence, to see if they can get it excluded....
• Nov 13th, 2014 @ 3:03am

  Re: terrorism

  on London's Third Wall And Surveillance Function Creep
  Actually, it has negative impact - the very fact that the state does crap like this makes those exposed to it feel hostile, and hence increases the probability they will take some sort of active part in anti-government actions....
• Nov 10th, 2014 @ 9:16am

  Re: Who the hell are they?

  on Demonizing Strong Encryption: Welcome To The Crypto Wars 2.0
  Or simpler still - most international companies need to treat governments at least reasonably equally. I am sure GCHQ and the NSA would be right behind the idea of all of cisco's routers having hardcoded backdoors in them for their convenience, but less so if the US and UK governments were also using them, and the German and Chinese governments had keys too....
• Oct 23rd, 2014 @ 2:35am

  Bearin mind of course

  on NY Police Commissioner Bill Bratton Latest To Complain About Phone Encryption
  That the UK *already has* a law to demand someone turns over keys to secured media of any type, on pain of imprisonment - no judicial warrant required.
  
  So what is being complained about here isn't being unable to gain lawful access to a device, its about being unable to gain access to a device without filing the paperwork first...