What can we do? Are our communications hopelessly and “perpetually insecure,” as the Electronic Frontier Foundation laments? Schneier says he’s not completely impressed with the NSA’s supposed superpowers: “They are not magical. They’re limited by the same economic realities as the rest of us, and our best defense is to make surveillance of us as expensive as possible.” He lists ways people can continue to try to protect themselves online, including continuing to use encryption but being wary of commercially available encryption software. In an op-ed in Wired, he suggests increasing key lengths used for encryption — that math is still on the side of the people.
Posted on: Sat, 07 Sep 2013 06:18:34 +0000
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