He said users should demand the creation of networks that cannot be stolen from and strong encryption to protect personal data.
The U.S. government argues that it needs to control the export of strong encryption for national security purposes to fight terrorism.
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U.S. software companies complain that the policy harms them because strong encryption is widely available outside the U.S. and U.S. vendors are losing money as a result.
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Muller-Maguhn noted that unlike the U.S., which imposes export restrictions on strong encryption, Germany has politicians who listened to advice from the hacker community and chose not to impose similar controls.
Seifried said he is encouraged by a recent announcement by the Ontario Information and Privacy Commission that pointed out that the Internet is insecure and urged everyone to learn to use strong encryption.
And even if investigators intercept a Skype call by tapping a suspect's internet connection, its strong encryption means they are likely to be able to determine only the time and the duration of the call.
Is the federal government able to comply with our requirements for strong authentication, file encryption, vulnerability and patch management, and privileged user controls?
The new standard has everything that WPA has plus the ability to use a new encryption method dubbed Advanced Encryption Standard, considered strong enough for use by federal government agencies.
And security tools really don't help here, Goldsmith says, although strong firewalling and external session-layer encryption are helpful.
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