Another of those analogies
Oct. 18th, 2013 06:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
drwexhttps://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/felten/a-court-order-is-an-insider-attack/
Ed Felten poses the simple proposition that "a court order is an insider attack." The point he's making is that - from the point of view of system design - you cannot know the motivations nor context of an insider extracting data from a system. One example is a legal court order for a suspect's email; the analogous example is an extortionist's demand made against a vulnerable employee. Technologically, if you design a system to permit the first use you cannot then design it to prevent the second.
Ed Felten poses the simple proposition that "a court order is an insider attack." The point he's making is that - from the point of view of system design - you cannot know the motivations nor context of an insider extracting data from a system. One example is a legal court order for a suspect's email; the analogous example is an extortionist's demand made against a vulnerable employee. Technologically, if you design a system to permit the first use you cannot then design it to prevent the second.
