Phi Beta Iota: Forward secrecy is neither new nor the first idea. Eric Hughes in the early 1990′s conceptualized end-user controlled encryption for banking data. The bottom line is that encryption is irrelevant if human integrity is lacking, and we have certainly seen that human integrity is lacking at both Google and Facebook. The human factor is central to both protecting information, and exploiting information in context. Technology is a sideshow. The main event is human, and that is what governments and other institutions have failed to develop to its fullest potential of intelligence and of integrity.
Posted on: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 14:36:34 +0000
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