From b4541778fe45750c3e3dd889fcdc5bfe18895a71 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?=C3=89ibhear=20=C3=93=20hAnluain?= Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2019 06:48:37 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Nearly there --- HarmfulCommunications201908.org | 69 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 66 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/HarmfulCommunications201908.org b/HarmfulCommunications201908.org index e5d8bb0..57da886 100644 --- a/HarmfulCommunications201908.org +++ b/HarmfulCommunications201908.org @@ -325,7 +325,7 @@ - Pat Rabbitte's and Lorraine Higgins' bills, since withdrawn - The EU Terrorism Content Directive... - The new Copyright Directive... - - + - * CONSDONE Introduction @@ -758,10 +758,73 @@ punishing an intermediary would stop people being nasty to each other. - Any new regulations around + Any new regulations around controlling abusive or harmful + behaviours online must start with changing user's behaviours. If + there is no attempt to change behaviour, then abusive people will + simply work around the controls and continue to abuse. -** CONSTODO Investigation support +** CONSTODO Investigation support + + In response to the live-streaming of that horrific shooting dead of + more than 50 people in New Zealand earlier this year, that country + has proscribed the video recorded by that white supremacist + terrorist as "objectionable", making it a criminal offence to share + it[fn:banNotice:https://www.classificationoffice.govt.nz/news/latest-news/christchurch-attacks-press-releases/#christchurch-attack-video-footage-and-document-has-been-banned-in-nz-what-this-means-for-you]. + + While one can understand the thinking that sharing the material + could only be done by people who support the atrocity, this is not + necessarily true. Other reasons to share the video or portions of + it might include + - to appeal for help in finding someone caught up in the masssacre + - Legitimate news reporting of such an event. + - to help investigate the shooting and its circumstances + - training for law enforcement or terrorism- or disaster-response + personnel. + + However, if the law says that no form of sharing is permitted, then + none of the entirely legitimate purposes would be possible, and the + world would be that bit less safe as a result. ** CONSTODO Encrypted services + + Some believe that if end-to-end encryption services that prevent + security services from accessing material were banned or + controlled, there would be less abusive behaviour online. This is + not true, nor is it a good public policy. + + Encryption is just mathematics, and it knows neither whether its + use is for ill or good. However, when you consider the extent to + which encryption is being used -- every website that uses =https= + as part of its address encrypts the traffic between itself and its + users, and that is nearly every website around the world -- the + good uses vastly outnumber the bad uses. If people are forced to + use an encryption system that has been modified to make it easy for + security services to gain access to the messages, it means that all + the good, innocent uses of encryption are at risk. Recent news that + Russian spies managed to infiltrate the + FBI[fn:Oath:https://news.yahoo.com/exclusive-russia-carried-out-a-stunning-breach-of-fbi-communications-system-escalating-the-spy-game-on-us-soil-090024212.html + (Please note that to access this story the user has to agree to + many hundreds of forms tracking or spend many up to an hour + examining those forms and disabling each one individually. It is + recommended that this story be access using "Incognito" or "Private + Browsing" mode in order to be protected against tracking).], + highlights how unreliable are assurances from security services + that they can keep secrets such as the keys to all encryption safe + from harm. + + All it takes is one determined intruder, and all the good uses of + encryption are put at risk in order to safe money and effort on + investigating illegal activities. + + I have written a number of articles on this matter providing more + details: + - [[http://www.gibiris.org/eo-blog/posts/2015/03/12_the-value-of-encryption.html][The value of encryption]] + - [[http://www.gibiris.org/eo-blog/posts/2015/03/18_how-can-encryption-be-regulated.html][How can encryption be regulated]] + - [[http://www.gibiris.org/eo-blog/posts/2018/08/21_you-cant-stop-people-from-using-encryption.html][You just can't stop people from using encryption, so stop trying]] + - [[http://www.gibiris.org/eo-blog/posts/2018/08/22_stop-people-from-using-encryption-postscript.html][Post-script on why you should stop trying to stop people from + using encryption]] + - [[http://www.gibiris.org/eo-blog/posts/2018/09/04_some-questions-5-eyes-countries-what-can-they-do.html][Some questions for the "5 Eyes" countries on what they think they + can do]] + * CONSTODO Answers to consultation questions The follows are some answers to the questions posed in the call for submissions.