I'm puzzled.
I'm using Tox at the moment for my messaging.
There is no "company".
Sending edicts to companies is going to make sod all difference to my secure comms.
The French Parliament is considering adding a requirement that tech companies must be able to break encryption on products used within its borders. In September, the French government asked citizens for feedback on an omnibus "Digital Republic" bill that would update its laws for the online age, including rules on open source …
"So it would pretty much guarantee that the exact people they need to catch will be absent from the data set."
I know it's a bit chapeau du papier d'aluminium, but this behaviour is repeated so often that you can't help but seriously entertain the oft repeated notion that the people they need to catch are not the people they actually want to catch, or perhaps merely discourage. The only alternative seems to be the that the worlds security services are complete idiots, and that's no more attractive an idea.
I really hope the French public haven't forgotten how to be politically difficult, because they usually do a pretty good job of it.
I really hope the French public haven't forgotten how to be politically difficult, because they usually do a pretty good job of it.
LOLNO. Only if the EURO injections from Le Gouvernement are not forthcoming or the corruption becomes so evident that fish heads are rotting under politician's canapés. Otherwise, it's Le Gallic Shrug.
No he does not.
Inspector Ludovic Cruchot is one you need to familiarize yourself with (it is a pity he is not particularly popular in English speaking countries - this is French comedy at its best).
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058135/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_27
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060450/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_23
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063005/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_14
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065769/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_11
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This is definitely Chrushot all right.
Love it. Any country implementing this rank idiocy immediately gets cut off from the global internet and any and all forms of IT hardware are no longer available there. Welcome back to the Bronze Age, ladies and gentlemen, enjoy your newly primitive lifestyle!
Lets see how long these wankers keep this up in the face of that.
Hi,
Seems like Marty McFly is alive and kicking, I remember the French having a similar attitude in the 90s when the US was planning to impose a mandatory backdoor chip (Clipper) the French took the "no encryption in this country" attitude, PGP being banned until 1996 (considered as "war class" weapon) . Of course it last until the first bank wanted to save money by providing e-banking.
What's the saying about learning from your past mistake?
Is anyone else *still* royally annoyed at the enormous pop down bar which I keep accidentally activating by mousing over it?
This century's weird masturbatory obsession with complex "flashy" web pages just drives me nuts.
Thank goodness that most web designers have realised (like the rest of us) how awful parallax scrolling front pages are for the user.
Here's "looking forward" to the next annoying fad to be inflicted upon us in the coming months.
présenté par:Mme Kosciusko-Morizet, M. Martin-Lalande, M. Cinieri, Mme Duby-Muller, M. Sermier, Mme Rohfritsch, M. Straumann, M. Abad, M. Salen, M. Morel-A-L'Huissier, M. Ginesy, M. Mathis, M. Degallaix, M. Hetzel, Mme Grosskost, Mme Lacroute, Mme Genevard et M. Saddier
It's an opposition ("Les Republicans") amendment -- it'll never pass.
Kosciusko-Morizet is a grade-A idiot.
Would they dare to withdraw cashpoint service and online banking? One day of that would probably be enough to change the politician's minds. (Unless their ministers, like Bertie Ahern when Minister of Finance in Ireland, don't have bank accounts.)
these will be the words of all the major tech companies as laws being proposed in the USA and i guess other countries will follow allow the companies to deny the facts and exempt them from any and all liability. Its Just the risk of being caught and public opinion making the company bankrupt by all its future revenue drying up that is what keeps them honest..... (as far as we know.... but they cant or wont say).
As long as the companies keep a way to Pwn the hardware even with perfect non back-doored encryption software the Govt can still get manufacturers to assist with getting their hands on the information of the individuals they want
You are only safe if you built the hardware from verified safe components, and personally compiled the code from source having checked and understood EVERY line. :-(
The only way to verify many of the hardware components is to use an electron (maybe stronger) microscope and that's provided you believe the reference materials that are provided. Sorry, but the days of perfectly scruntinized components are well gone*.
On software? Can you even trust the compiler? No.
* - This comes up a lot in the comments on Bruce Schneier's 'blog. Especially on Friday's if you are looking for 'historical' material.