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Five Eyes Security Alliance, Google and Your Offline Purchases, Privacy by Default in Firefox
This is the Shared Security Weekly Blaze for September 10, 2018 sponsored by Security Perspectives – Your Source for Tailored Security Awareness Training and Assessment Solutions and Silent Pocket. This episode was hosted by Tom Eston. Listen to this episode and previous ones direct via your web browser by clicking here. You can also watch the podcast by subscribing to our YouTube Channel!
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This is your Shared Security Weekly Blaze for September 10th 2018 with your host, Tom Eston. In this week’s episode: The five eyes security alliance, Google and your offline purchases, and privacy by default in Firefox.
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Hi everyone, this is Tom Eston, Co-host of the Shared Security podcast. Welcome to the Shared Security Weekly Blaze where we update you on the top 3 security and privacy topics from the week. These weekly podcasts are published every Monday and are 15 minutes or less quickly giving you “news that you can use”.
The “Five Eyes”, which is a long-running security alliance between the US, UK, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada, agreed in their annual meeting a few weeks ago that “privacy is not absolute” and “Should governments continue to encounter impediments to lawful access to information necessary to aid the protection of the citizens of our countries, we may pursue technological, enforcement, legislative or other measures to achieve lawful access solutions”. In addition, it was also stated that technology companies should be urged to “voluntarily establish lawful access solutions to their products and services”. If that is not possible, due to push back from technology companies, intelligence agencies may take matters into their own hands. What this means is that if technology companies do not build or develop backdoors into their products, law enforcement may develop their own ways to hack into devices or could work to enact legislation to eventually force technology companies to create these backdoors.
Encryption and government backdoor access, as you may remember, has been a very hotly debated topic as the needs of law enforcement often times conflict with the needs of encryption and privacy that we all are entitled to. We all realize that the same encryption that we use to safeguard our legitimate private and business data is the very same encryption that criminals use. However, allowing our governments backdoor access to bypass or circumvent encryption weakens security for all of us. You may recall the controversy over the FBI asking Apple to break into the seized iPhone from the San Bernardino shooting that took place in 2015. Apple rejected the FBI’s demand so the FBI apparently found their own way to access the device from professional hackers that may have had a 0day vulnerability to allow access to the iPhone. I would suspect that because of this new rhetoric from government alliances such as the “Five Eyes”, the 0day market for exploits al
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