Five Years Ago
This week in 2015, the attacks on encryption continued, with David
Cameron’s former speechwriter publishing an incredibly dumb article in
the Telegraph and Dianne Feinstein contradicting her month-old
fearmongering about cybersecurity with demands for encryption backdoors —
while a supposed ISIS encryption manual that people had been freaking out
about turned out to be a guide for journalists. Meanwhile, we learned
about widespread illegal wiretaps by police in California, and that
reports of the end of NSA domestic email collection were incorrect — and,
long before he was the Supreme Court’s most prominent alleged rapist,
Judge Brett Kavanaugh was offering up a strident defense of the NSA’s
bulk metadata collection. …
