Following China’s example, France has banned anonymizing software, open WiFi, and private cryptographic keys under the auspices of security. In the wake of the Paris attacks, several high-ranking American federal officials criticized surveillance roll-backs and suggested encryption should be banned despite no evidence that it played a role in the tragedy — to the contrary, the attackers in this case communicated in the clear, and the top intelligence lawyer recently lamented that the government lacks a single good example of terrorists relying on cryptography to do their dirty work.
[Read more from the latest in my surveillance essay series at Rebel News.]
