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[ PRIVACY Forum ] Encryption snake oil salesmen are out in force
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Fri Nov 29 11:54:26 2013
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Encryption snake oil salesmen are out in force trying to leverage
surveillance fears
http://j.mp/1j0NqtJ (AP / WTHI-TV)
"Every time a situation like this erupts you're going to have a frenzy
of snake oil sellers who are going to throw their products into the
street," says Carson Sweet, CEO of San Francisco-based data storage
security firm CloudPassage. "It's quite a quandary for the consumer."
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Again, the point of opportunistic, pervasive encryption isn't to stop
targeted surveillance, but rather to make mass surveillance -- which
tends to mostly involve the communications of innocent parties -- so
time consuming and expensive so as to discourage its use.
--Lauren--
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