Why are politicians sometimes such idiots? The French recently voted to criminalise bosses of tech firms who refused to decrypt user data when requested. Don’t worry, it’s not law yet, and likely won’t ever be, but you have to ask yourself how hard it is to understand how encryption works. The whole point of encryption … Continue reading Let’s talk about encryption
Tag: France
Business as usual
It’s hard to know what - indeed, whether - to post in the wake of the Paris attacks. I’d just come off the phone to a French client when the news broke, which made it feel all the more immediate and proximate. I wish we had a simple answer to this awful conflict; at the … Continue reading Business as usual
