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FBI director renews push for back doors, urging vendors to change business models

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The FBI still wants backdoors into encrypted communications, it just doesn’t want to call them backdoors and it doesn’t want to dictate what they should look like.

FBI Director James Comey told the Senate Judiciary Committee that he’d been in talks with unspecified tech leaders about his need to crack encrypted communications in order to track down terrorists and that these leaders understood the need.

In order to comply, tech companies need to change their business model – by selling only communications gear that enables law enforcement to access communications in unencrypted form, he says, rather than products that only the parties participating in the communication can decrypt.

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Network World Tim Greene

US Navy renews training in celestial navigation over GPS hack fears

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Now that the US Navy is bringing back celestial navigation, we might want to ask ourselves what other technologies we depend on without a backup, and what would happen to us if those technologies failed.
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IDG Contributor Network: Quantum computing breakthrough renews concerns of cybersecurity apocalypse

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The term “cryptopocalypse” was probably first coined at the Black Hat USA information security convention in 2013.

A talk presented by four security and technology experts at the show explored cryptographic weaknesses and attempted to answer the hypothetical question: “What happens the day after RSA is broken?“

RSA is a widely used public-key cryptosystem used in digital signatures.

The answer, they determined then, was: “almost total failure of trust in the Internet,” for one thing. The reason? Almost everything we do on the Internet is in some way protected by cryptography.

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CBS renews ‘How I Met Your Mother’ – Dallas Morning News

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