Best Infosec-Related Long Reads for the Week of 1/27/24
Client-side scanning is not a solution, Explosion of satellite surveillance data is coming, Taylor Swift deepfakes will change the internet, Cyber should be integral to foreign policy, more
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Bugs in our pockets: the risks of client-side scanning
A group of academic researchers across several universities and Microsoft argue that client-side scanning (CSS), promoted by some in industry and government as a privacy-oriented alternative to weakening encryption for law enforcement to gain access to encrypted device data, creates security and privacy risks while offering a problematic solution to law enforcement.
Instead of providing decryption capabilities, many current policy efforts involve trying to circumvent encryption entirely by scanning materials before they are encrypte…
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