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"The government's ability to perform surveillance even when armed with a court order depends in large part on the decisions engineers made when designing a prod
by amirmc 13y ago
"The government's ability to perform surveillance even when armed with a court order depends in large part on the decisions engineers made when designing a product."
So it's up to engineers building new products to incorporate security from the ground up. No more lip-service to 'Your privacy is important to us' but actual technical changes.
- Zigurd 13y agoThe one thing I have not heard amid the denials from Internet portals, search engines, and social networks is any move at all to provide truly secure communications and storage. The only consumer-oriented service I know of that advertises the ability to encrypt your data with your own key is Carbonite, and they did so long before Snowden. They all could do it. They all could provide routine strong encryption, and they could make it simple. They all could have been securing your email from hackers and foreign spies, long before the NSA became an issue. By taking that step they could regain trust. And yet...