Schneier: Time To Make NSA Eavesdropping Expensive

NSA surveillance piggybacks on corporate capabilities through cooperation, bribery, threats and compulsion, says security evangelist Bruce Schneier.

As custodians of the Internet mull over the lessons that revelations about National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance offer about the insecurity of the Internets infrastructure, architects must find ways to make wholesale spying more expensive. So said noted cryptographer and security evangelist Bruce Schneier in a talk today about Internet hardening at the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) plenary session.
There are a lot of technical things we can do. The goal is to make eavesdropping expensive, Schneier said. Thats the way to think about this, is to force the NSA to abandon wholesale collection in favor of targeted collection of information. As things stand now, the NSAs surveillance efforts are aided and abetted by the information economy as it stands today, he explained. With data being collected about consumers at every step of their movement online and very little of it being purged from corporate systems, it is only a matter of time that someone puts that data to use.
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