GCHQ bod tells privacy advocates: Most of our work is making sure we operate within the law

guest · May 29, 2018

GCHQ bod tells privacy advocates: Most of our work is making sure we operate within the law
'If you whack governments on privacy it will only drive the vulnerability market'
May 29, 2018
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/05/29/crypto_wars_fipr/

Privacy advocates, journalists and a representative from GCHQ squared off in a debate on surveillance in Cambridge today.

"Mobile phones have changed surveillance. Metadata is more important," Levy explained, contrasting modern surveillance with the techniques of yesteryear where a physical clip would be put on the phone line of a suspect and listened in to by specialists.

Levy argued for a "transparent, well managed and ordered" surveillance regime as opposed to a system that would rely on finding software flaws in order to defeat encryption. He told privacy advocates: "If you whack governments on privacy it will only drive the vulnerability market."

He added that real world end-to-end encryption systems are far from perfect. Intel agencies are able to exploit the "I've lost my phone" feature. Levy argued for co-operation between tech providers and governments. The debate needed to move beyond talking about "angels and demons", Levy concluded
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