Crypto wars announced in Canada too
A month ago I noted that the crypto wars are back on in the US. Now it’s the same in Canada as Tories reintroduce legislation to intercept encrypted messages.
The legislation would force service providers to ensure all of their new technologies can be intercepted by police.
We need not worry however, since
… law-enforcement authorities would still need court orders to intercept communications or obtain data related to a suspect’s location from a service provider.
Backdoor details will almost certainly be discovered — either through people in the know blabbing or because they so weaken the cryptographic implementation that determined hackers can discover them — that the need for a court order shouldn’t really console us.
Rights will be trampled. The question Canadians have to ask themselves is, “Is it worth the price?”