Cybertoonz

Frances Haugen meets her limits

Who knew?  It turns out even a media heroine can't beat up the media's favorite whipping boy if that means criticizing end-to-end encryption.

Comments

[Martinned]

Point of clarification: What do you mean by cyberespionage, and why should I worry about it more than about the (US) government reading all my messages?

[Krayt]

Exactly. While it's important to keep tabs on foreign governments and investigate domestic criminality, a quick look around the world shows encryption would, and is currently, a boon against dictatorship. When it isn't banned.

Every time an idiot senator or high official in the FBI says, "We need encryption backdoors because I've seen some shit", I think to the far greater piles of human misery stacked up, with a not-imagined boot stepping on their faces, forever.

It's a notch in the belt for western police at the cost of billions lost to unescapable tyranny.

It's also why I never bought into the whole "it's just phone metadata so don't need a warrant. We just want to flesh out their networks."

Yes, and the Tyrant King George III would have quickly rounded up the Founding Fathers. Wheee!

[James Pollock]

"While it's important to keep tabs on foreign governments and investigate domestic criminality, a quick look around the world shows encryption would, and is currently, a boon against dictatorship. When it isn't banned."

Someone has never heard of "ransomware".

[James Pollock]

It wasn't that long ago that encryption technology was regulated as "munitions".

[Prester John]

Oh no, there might be *one* part of my life that the government doesn’t have an unaccountable ability to snoop on. How terrible.

[Rev. Arthur L. Kirkland]

I am disinclined to credit unsubstantiated implications aimed by Frances Haugen by right-wing authoritarians, even when delivered by cartoon.

[Morrowind542]

You mean the US can't conduct cyberespionage on the messages

[tkamenick]

EXACTLY

[Brett Bellmore]

Um, if they're doing end to end encryption, how exactly is there any "cyberespionage" going on for them to notice? Or do you maybe mean by it just "somebody I don't like using the platform"?

[James Pollock]

Brett, I hate to break it to you, but sometimes encryption can be broken by someone motivated enough to devote sufficient resources to it. Prior to WWII, German diplomatic communications were encrypted end-to-end. This did not stop the British from listening to them.

[Cal Cetín]

Given the woman's clerical collar, I'd say she's made a new career as an Episcopal priest.

[Cal Cetín]

Maybe she can be the Archbishop of Cant-her-bury.

Yes she Can...turbury!

[Jimmy the Dane]

the use of "whipping boy" is pretty racist....

[Squirrelloid]

So, teenage girls communicating with other people in a medium that allows the expression of social approval or disapproval is bad for teenage girls? Didn't we all learn this in middleschool?

[IPLawyer]

Stewart, again, as a fan, I remind you that comics are supposed to be funny. Try inserting a joke in there as opposed to a rote recitation of what has occurred.

[shawn_dude]

Because WhatsApps' "end to end encryption" was such a winner when it couldn't secure it's own client "end."

This comic isn't funny because the point is stretched and weak.