Cyber-Privacy- The politics of encryption

• When does the need to know out weigh privacy?
• Is there a nuclear terrorist/rapist on the line?
• We can tap telco lines with court order
• Law Enforcement want: back door access
• Clipper Chip Proposal- Clinton Proposal- Hardware to decode
• Escrow Key- is there a key to 'unlock' the message
• Who gets 'the key'- Government, Private Companies?
• "If encryption is illegal then only criminals will use encryption."
• Business and Civil Libertarians want: Privacy, Security
• Pretty Good Privacy (PCP) and Cypherpunks
• International Component
• Can't sell computers with Backdoor to other countries
• Businesses want to hold onto trade and financial secrets
• Sen. Burns and Pro-Code movement
• Cyber-cash- Depends on a private code generated by company
• Code must be secure!

Cyber Trespassing and Vandalism

• Entering Computers illegally and changing data at hospitals?
• Was the perimeter/boundary 'posted'? Difficult to see a cyber-boundary
• Computer Viruses, 'Worms' - rogue programs to alter without users knowledge; usually destructive.
• What was the value of the information lost/changed?

Technological-Breakdowns

• Designs need: redundancy, stability, flexibility
• Computers/Technology breaks down- telephone failures; electronic failures; telephone failures- eg. Locking wardens in and prisoners out
• Who pays and how much is the outage worth?- new dimension of 'liability'
• Need to assess social cost of technological failure.