Encryption. Everyone’s talking about it. In October, the European Commission proposed that member states should share encryption information to prevent the need for encryption ‘backdoors’. The RH Amber Rudd MP has asked that creators of messaging apps ‘do more to help the authorities access messages on end-to-end encrypted services.’ All this debate has honourable intentions […]
Most of us have worked in companies where, like Mulder in the X-Files, the ‘IT guys’ would inhabit the windowless basement of our office building. We’d occasionally call for their help, at which point these pallid professionals would materialise in Metallica tee-shirts and jeans to sort the problem. After trying to explain the fix in […]
