IC Colloquium : Stopping law enforcement hacking
Event details
| Date | 09.12.2016 |
| Hour | 14:15 › 15:30 |
| Location | |
| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
By : Chris Soghoian - Yale University
Abstract :
We didn't win the second crypto wars. Governments merely made a strategic retreat and they'll be back. Although they will likely give up on trying to regulate or prohibit encryption, we should expect that malware and law enforcement hacking will play a starring role in the next battle in the crypto wars. In a world where encryption is increasingly the norm, the cops aren't going to give up and go home. No, they'll target our scarily insecure mobile devices and computers. How did we get here, what's going on, and what can we do to stop it?
Bio :
One of Politico's top "thinkers, doers and visionaries transforming American politics," Christopher Soghoian is "the most prominent of a new breed of activist technology researchers" (The Economist), "who have risen to prominence by showing how tedious technical flaws can affect ordinary people."
Soghoian is the Principal Technologist with the Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project at the American Civil Liberties Union. He is also a Visiting Fellow at Yale Law School's Information Society Project and a TED Senior Fellow.
Soghoian completed his Ph.D. at Indiana University in 2012, which focused on the role that Internet and telephone companies play in enabling government surveillance of their customers.
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Abstract :
We didn't win the second crypto wars. Governments merely made a strategic retreat and they'll be back. Although they will likely give up on trying to regulate or prohibit encryption, we should expect that malware and law enforcement hacking will play a starring role in the next battle in the crypto wars. In a world where encryption is increasingly the norm, the cops aren't going to give up and go home. No, they'll target our scarily insecure mobile devices and computers. How did we get here, what's going on, and what can we do to stop it?
Bio :
One of Politico's top "thinkers, doers and visionaries transforming American politics," Christopher Soghoian is "the most prominent of a new breed of activist technology researchers" (The Economist), "who have risen to prominence by showing how tedious technical flaws can affect ordinary people."
Soghoian is the Principal Technologist with the Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project at the American Civil Liberties Union. He is also a Visiting Fellow at Yale Law School's Information Society Project and a TED Senior Fellow.
Soghoian completed his Ph.D. at Indiana University in 2012, which focused on the role that Internet and telephone companies play in enabling government surveillance of their customers.
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Practical information
- General public
- Free
- This event is internal
Contact
- Host : B. Ford