Phoney war

• Autores: Chris Baraniuk
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3110, 2017, págs. 34-38
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Baraniuk investigates whether making people's personal data private really undermine public security. Digital encryption has long been part of the Internet's furniture. Take the "s" in the "https://" that people might see prefacing a web address in their browser. This indicates that any data shared with that website should be transmitted in a secure form, using an encryption system originally developed for e-commerce. Nowadays, nearly half the world's web traffic is encrypted, thanks to moves such as that by the streaming service Netflix, which announced in 2015 that it intended to move to the https standard. Just recently, there has also been an explosion in the encryption of personal data.