Schneier: Make Wide-Scale Surveillance Too Expensive
By Ericka Chickowski
November 06, 2013
Security and privacy advocate, Bruce Schneier, responded to
the recent revelations of NSA spying with a call to make eavesdropping more
expensive. If the cost of eavesdropping is too high the NSA and others spies
will have to shift to targeted tracking rather than the whole tracking we see
today. The vast amount of information that is collected on consumers is aiding
the NSA’s monitoring. He said that what we now have is a public/private
surveillance partnership. Schneier is advocating hardening the Internet for
better security. He stated,
"Fundamentally, surveillance is the business model of the Internet. The
NSA didn't wake up and say let's just spy on everybody. They looked up and
said, 'Wow, corporations are spying on everybody. Let's get ourselves a
cut.'" His main suggestion was to make encryption ubiquitous on the
Internet backbone. He also advocated distributing services to make tracking
more expensive. He encouraged wider use of end point security products and
better anonymity tools. He also encouraged monitoring to make sure that
software does not have hidden back doors. He said that while the NSA is in the
limelight now it isn’t the only problem, many government agencies and private
sector groups are engaged in spying.
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