ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed to Ask [email protected]English • 3 months agoDo you think law enforcement should use encryption on their radios (for security purposes)? Or should they not be allowed to encrypt their communications (for transparency purposes)? Why?message-square29fedilinkarrow-up167
arrow-up167message-squareDo you think law enforcement should use encryption on their radios (for security purposes)? Or should they not be allowed to encrypt their communications (for transparency purposes)? Why?ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed to Ask [email protected]English • 3 months agomessage-square29fedilink
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink19•3 months agoEverybody can push “send” on some random device and say “I am your President. Now listen…” …unless they use encryption.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish12•edit-23 months agoIn this specific scenario, I feel it is really about signing the message than encrypting the message.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink1•3 months ago“The presidential broadcast today is signed with the words, Tourniquet Faster Inedible Swan Shelf Overturn Cactus. Alternatively, please scan the following Morse Code with your device…”
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink10•3 months agoYou are confusing encryption with Authentication, while it is true that they usually come together to a degree, they are not the same
Everybody can push “send” on some random device and say “I am your President. Now listen…”
…unless they use encryption.
In this specific scenario, I feel it is really about signing the message than encrypting the message.
“The presidential broadcast today is signed with the words, Tourniquet Faster Inedible Swan Shelf Overturn Cactus. Alternatively, please scan the following Morse Code with your device…”
You are confusing encryption with Authentication, while it is true that they usually come together to a degree, they are not the same