FBI, NSA Don’t Need Computer Backdoors to Spy on You, They Can Just Hack Your Refrigerator
Privacy? What privacy?
The other day I was talking to my boss about privacy, encryption, etc. and about my son taking a computer forensics class this semester. He says it’s one of the most challenging classes he’s taken to date and was gob-smacked at how much data we leave behind that can be detected. I told my boss that I basically consider anything I enter into my computer no longer truly private,. Ditto for anything committed to paper. And anything posted on the internet—fuggedaboutdit.
She said those were good assumptions to make.
Federal agencies won’t need to hack into your encrypted devices to spy on you. All they need to do is to hack into your oven toaster and other Internet-connected appliances at home.
A Harvard report released Monday destroyed claims of the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) and National Security Agency (NSA) that law enforcement is “going dark” as a result of encryption. Rather, it says that the boost in Internet-connected devices is going to provide a myriad of new surveillance opportunities.
Participated in by current and ex-intelligence officials, the study pushed out by Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society says that a multitude of new technologies, which range from bedsheets, cameras, cars, door locks, toothbrushes, watches and other wearable devices will offer the government alternative options to trace kidnappers and terrorists.
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Here’s the full report: