{"id":146062,"date":"2015-04-20T16:35:21","date_gmt":"2015-04-20T16:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/target\/the-governmentcorporate-debate-on-encryption-how-best-to-spy-on-you\/"},"modified":"2015-04-20T16:35:21","modified_gmt":"2015-04-20T16:35:21","slug":"the-governmentcorporate-debate-on-encryption-how-best-to-spy-on-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/the-governmentcorporate-debate-on-encryption-how-best-to-spy-on-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Government and corporations are deciding on new ways to invade your privacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A debate, going on in the quasi-private and well-catered halls of government-corporate collusion, has reached the post-smoldering stage. It&#8217;s now a virtual forest fire in full public view.<\/p>\n<p>It pits government spies against corporate cannibals and is about the often misunderstood and somewhat tedious issue of encryption.<\/p>\n<p>Like so many &#8220;raging debates&#8221; among the powerful, this one is more important to most of us not for what is being said but what is assumed.<\/p>\n<p>To believe the corporate PR releases (and some media reports), <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/technology\/236141-googles-schmidt-predicts-win-on-encryption-debate\">the two sides are debating the balance between protecting our rights and protecting our lives.<\/a>. In fact, the debate is more about how to effectively manage spying: the government says it wants companies to give it the codes to crack all encryption while the companies are devising ways to make sure the government has a court order, or inter-agency collaboration, before doing that.<\/p>\n<p>Nobody is saying the obvious: cracking encryption to steal data is unconstitutional and illegal and this debate is taking place at a moment when massive movements of protest are convering the streets of our cities organized through social media and cell-phone communications. In a sense, this is the fight over how they&#8217;ll cross the line we can&#8217;t let them cross.<\/p>\n<p>The term &#8220;encryption&#8221; is now ubiquitous. Most of us have heard it, many understand it in principle but few know much about.<\/p>\n<p id=\"mct-ai-attriblink\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thiscantbehappening.net\/encryptiondebate\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A debate, going on in the quasi-private and well-catered halls of government-corporate collusion, has reached the post-smoldering stage. It&#8217;s now a virtual forest fire in full public view. It pits government spies against corporate cannibals and is about the often misunderstood and somewhat tedious issue of encryption. Like so many &#8220;raging debates&#8221; among the powerful, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":146063,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,1614,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-146062","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-surveillance-big-brother","9":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}