Gregory's ServerToday is the 30th anniversary of the disclosure, by some troublemaking malcontent, of a flaw in the NSA's "Clipper Chip" key escrow scheme.
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Some years later, I wrote up my recollections of Clipper, key escrow, and what we now know as "crypto war I" in an invited talk at ACSAC 2011: https://www.mattblaze.org/papers/escrow-acsac11.pdf   @mattblaze @mattblaze The more I allow it to stew in my paranoid little brain, the more I believe that Microsoft's Recall was really created in conjunction with the feds.  @mattblaze fast forward to 2024: “European Police Chiefs call for industry and governments to take action against end-to-end encryption roll-out” … “Tech companies have a social responsibility to develop a safer environment where law enforcement and justice can do their work” They can do it the old fashioned way, at the endpoint. Sitting at the middle of a digital panopticon looking out at society isn't policing, it's guarding a prison. @mattblaze "the man who sank the Clipper ship" 😃 - I remember reading about that kerfuffle over in the UK back then. Thanks so much for sharing both that and the paper!  *swoosh hand* Oh, that rascal… I wonder if he ever stopped that “hacking” nonsense and made anything of himself. 😜😇 |
@mattblaze Mazel!