Listening In: Cybersecurity in an Insecure Age
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Название: Listening In: Cybersecurity in an Insecure Age
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Автор: Susan Landau
Год выпуска: 2017
Формат: EPUB, RTF, PDF
Размер: 10.1 MB
ISBN: 118567000562
Язык: Английский
СКАЧАТЬ Listening In: Cybersecurity in an Insecure Age БЕСПЛАТНО EPUB - DOC - DJVU - RTF - PDFОписание: A cybersecurity expert and former Google privacy analyst’s urgent call to protect devices and networks against malicious hackers and misinformed policymakers. New technologies have provided both incredible convenience and new threats. The same kinds of digital networks that allow you to hail a ride using your smartphone let power grid operators control a country’s electricity—and these personal, corporate, and government systems are all vulnerable. In Ukraine, unknown hackers shut off electricity to nearly 230,000 people for six hours. North Korean hackers destroyed networks at Sony Pictures in retaliation for a film that mocked Kim Jong-un. And Russian cyberattackers leaked Democratic National Committee emails in an attempt to sway a U.S. presidential election.
And yet despite such documented risks, government agencies, whose investigations and surveillance are stymied by encryption, push for a weakening of protections. In this accessible and riveting read, Susan Landau makes a compelling case for the need to secure our data, explaining how we must maintain cybersecurity in an insecure age.
In February 2016 the Judiciary Committee of the US House of Representatives invited me to testify on encryption. Cryptography protects data in motion—communications—and data at rest—particularly data stored on smartphones, laptops, and other digital devices—from prying eyes. The encryption issue has bedeviled US law enforcement since the early 1990s. Because encryption was becoming a default on consumer devices, law enforcement’s worst fears were finally coming true. Not only were smart criminals and terrorists using encryption to hide their plans, as they had been doing so for quite some time, but now the less savvy ones were as well.
FBI director James Comey was pressing Congress to require that “exceptional access” be built into encryption systems, enabling law enforcement to access communications or open devices with legal authorization. But the FBI’s seemingly simple request was anything but. If you make it easier to break into a communication system or a phone, it’s not just government agents with a court order who will get in. Bad guys, including criminals and other sophisticated attackers, will also take advantage of the system. Weakening security is exactly the wrong move for a world fully dependent on digital communications and devices to conduct personal, business, and government affairs.