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Elite school donors in alleged data breach
The Australian The school had kept the records on behalf of the Somerville House Foundation, which wrote to donors last month about the “possible data breach”. “The school has recently drawn to our attention that the former company secretary of the foundation and … |
U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ call for a way to “overcome” cryptography met with scorn from a panel of elite cryptographers speaking at this week’s RSA Conference 2017 in San Francisco.
“Any one of my students will be capable of writing good crypto code,” says Adi Shamir, the ‘S’ in RSA and a professor at the Weizmann Institute in Israel.
Sessions’ use of the term “overcome” during his confirmation hearings actually means installing backdoors, says Ronald Rivest, the ‘R’ in RSA and a professor at MIT. He cited a joint Congressional study that concluded that weakening encryption works against the national interest, and that encryption is global anyway — so the U.S. can’t call all the shots.
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After all the big breaches reported last year, Real Future’s Kevin Roose wanted to see how well he would fare in a personal pen-test. Issuing such a “hack me” challenge is rarely wise as New York University Professor and PandoDaily editor Adam Penenberg found out a few years ago after asking TrustWave to hack him if it could. Roose posted a video showing “what happens when you dare expert hackers to hack you” and the resulting pwnage was not pretty.
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In what’ll be great news for those who like to take full control of their iPhones, and bad news for Apple, China’s elite Keen Team is plotting a jailbreak in time for the full commercial release of iOS 9 this autumn. Speaking with FORBES from Shanghai …
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