Cryptographers warn bill lacks safeguards present in other Five Eyes countries
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The briefing paper notes that lawful-access regimes in the U.S. and other Five Eyes countries include multiple safeguards that are absent from Bill C-22, and warns that mandating encryption flaws could open attack vectors for malicious actors globally.
“If Canada requires service providers to create 'operational and technical capabilities' to break secure systems, then the same attack vectors are left open to others, globally.”
Cryptographers' briefing paperIan Goldberg Cryptography expert, University of WaterlooPeter Swire Cybersecurity and privacy expert, Georgia Tech
Gary Anandasangaree Public Safety MinisterSean Fraser Justice Minister
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the definition of electronic service provider in this bill: electronic service means a service, or a feature of a service, that involves the creation, recording, storage, processing, transmission, reception, emission or making available of information in electronic, digital or any other intangible form by an electronic, digital, magnetic, optical…
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I'll do everything I can to thwart these efforts. I don't really have anything to hide, but I can't abide by this long, misguided overreach.
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I don't like this bill. He's doing a better job than pp every would have though, pp is not a smart person. Support had little to do with it
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you are deflecting. if you actually care, start pushing back against your government
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