In order for any smartphone manufacturer to decrypt the data on your phone, it has to hold onto a secret that lets it get that access. And that secre…

- Matt Blaze

The security of computers and the Internet is a horrible and dangerous mess. Every week we hear about breaches of databases of Social Security number…

- Matt Blaze

It may be true that encryption makes certain investigations of crime more difficult. It can close down certain investigative techniques or make it ha…

- Matt Blaze

Telephone handsets are particularly in need of built-in security. We have almost every aspect of our personal and work lives reflected on them and we…

- Matt Blaze

The people working in my field also are quite skeptical of our ability to do this. It ultimately boils down to the problem of building complex system…

- Matt Blaze

There's been a certain amount of opportunism in the wake of the Paris attacks in 2015, when there was almost a reflexive assumption that, "Oh, if onl…

- Matt Blaze

If it were possible to hold onto this sort of database and really be assured that only good guys get access to it, we might have a different discussi…

- Matt Blaze

Computer science doesn't know how to build complex systems that work reliably. This has been a well-understood problem since the very beginning of pr…

- Matt Blaze

On balance, the use of encryption, just like the use of good locks on doors, has the net effect of preventing a lot more crime than it might assist.

- Matt Blaze