Here We Go Again: GCHQ’s Ghost User Proposal to Circumvent Encryption

Originally published at: https://tidbits.com/2019/07/30/here-we-go-again-gchqs-ghost-user-proposal-to-circumvent-encryption/

Security expert Jon Callas has written a four-part series for the ACLU on problems with the latest government proposal—this time from the UK’s GCHQ—to allow the government to listen in on encrypted communications. Spoiler: it won’t work.