Earlier this week, MIT welcomed a distinguished guest to speak as part of its Internet Policy Research Initiative: Robert Hannigan, director of GCHQ, Britain’s version of the National Security Agency. Extending an olive branch to a fiercely skeptical audience, Hannigan tried to clarify the elusive balance between cybersecurity and national security when it comes to encryption.
His talk in Cambridge took place amid a raging legal battle between Apple and the FBI regarding the tech giant’s refusal to unlock an iPhone belonging to one of the San Bernardino shooters. The FBI needs Apple to modify the operating system on the attacker’s phone so that it can gain access to its contents; without doing so, the phone’s contents would be automatically erased after 10 failed attempts to guess the shooter’s password. By circumventing this automatic self-destruct mechanism, an Apple-written “backdoor” to the device would enable the FBI to gain access to the phone by trying every possible password. For the full article click here
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