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wanting to use SSL/TLS/HTTPS out of
the country.
˲ France’s ministry of the interior is
working on banning free WiFi connec-
tions and the use of the Tor protocol
and networks.
˲ President Obama urged high-tech
and law enforcement leaders to make
it more difficult for terrorists to use
technology to escape from justice.
Other countries, notably the U.K.,
are also working to clamp down on
encryption. The Great Firewall of Chi-
na has been in operation for a num-
ber of years, and for all we know, the
NSA’s total monitoring of the Internet
continues unabated 2. 5 years after
Snowden revealed it to the world. The
things worth noting here are:
˲ Kazakhstan did not just require
criminals to install the “state root
certificate” so their communications
could be scrutinized, it required every-
body in Kazakhstan to do so.
˲ France will not just ban crimi-
nals from using free WiFi and Tor, it
will ban anybody and everybody from
using them.
˲ While Obama wants to make it
“harder for terrorists,” I don’t think he
contemplates Apple offering an “OS X
terrorist edition” or that terrorists will
take an FBI-sponsored “Are you a ter-
rorist?” quiz to find out if they should
be using it.
Whatever the high-tech and law en-
forcement leaders decide, it will apply
to everybody.
How Did More Encryption
Cause Less Privacy?
In Terry Pratchett’s Going Postal, the
hero postmaster, Moist von Lipwig,
has a knack for noticing what is not in a
text. He would have had a field day with
BCP188 because none of the following
words are anywhere to be found:
˲ law
˲ court
˲ crime
˲ human
˲ secret
˲ warrant
˲ espionage
˲ constitution
˲ jurisdiction

It was not by accident, mind you, the authors of the document deliberately