🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2024-08-22
Throwback Thursday revisits past predictions with a focus on encryption and privacy in the digital age.
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Throwback Thursday is based upon the classic Fudge Sunday Weekly newsletter sections for "Shot and Chaser".
Basically, Throwback Thursday is a look back at a prior prediction or past news coverage and how that worked out in the present.
Encryption has been an increasingly thorny topic in the news as technology, privacy, and policy collide. For example, if you were to look back a few years ago, you might have thought the Sky ECC story was over.
Techmeme: US DOJ indicts CEO of encrypted phone company Sky for selling devices to drug traffickers, the second such company to face charges after Phantom Secure (Joseph Cox/VICE)
By Joseph Cox / VICE. View the full context on Techmeme.
In fact, the story was only just beginning. This week, Sky ECC made news again.
Techmeme: US court records: US agencies are increasingly accessing parts of the 500M encrypted message haul retrieved from the hack of encrypted phone company Sky in 2021 (Joseph Cox/404 Media)
By Joseph Cox / 404 Media. View the full context on Techmeme.
What makes this story interesting is the parallels of accessing encrypted messages years later as we face a future Y2Q. Notably, NIST standards for PQC arrived recently as well.
NIST Releases First 3 Finalized Post-Quantum Encryption Standards | NIST
NIST is encouraging computer system administrators to begin transitioning to the new standards as soon as possible.
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