There is an opportunity here to signal that Zoom is not a Chinese asset. Zoom can effectively remove itself from the board by completely mitigating passive surveillance. When no state’s intelligence agency benefits from a home field advantage with Zoom, then its value as a strategic cyber asset is massively reduced. If Zoom eliminates the […]
Forgotten Tricks of Trench Warfare
Razzle Dazzle everywhere The German sandbags were a variety of colors, black, pink, yellow, beige, green, etc. They were not arranged in orderly patterns, but scattered haphazardly throughout the parapet. The belief was that the cacophony of contrasting colors made it harder for the human visual processing system to make sense of what it saw. […]
Security thinking ruined secure messengers
…I’m more of a “blog half full of COMSEC” kinda guy… Secure instant messengers are a miracle of the modern age. They enable literally anyone to communication with security and privacy guarantees that were the exclusive capability of nation states just a few decades ago. In real-time, regardless of geographic location. Telephones connect places, mobile […]