Clipper Meets Apple vs. FBI—A Comparison of the Cryptography Discourses from 1993 and 2016

Schulze, Matthias

doi:10.17645/mac.v5i1.805

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“…One of the well known cases is Apple V/S FBI, as mentioned by Timberg, C. & Miller, G. [8], FBI -Director James B. Comey sharply criticized Apple and Google for developing forms of smartphone encryption so secure that law enforcement officials cannot easily gain access to information stored on the devices -even when they have valid search warrants‖. While, on another hand Schulze, M. [9] referred to a dual-edge sword: -encryption helps to protect the privacy of individuals and industry, but it also can shield criminals and terrorists importance of privacy.‖ However Shculze emphasized only on encryption, other privacy related tools and technologies can be treated equally. They do allow normal users in maintaining their privacy, while the same thing can be used by criminals in hiding their identity.…”

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Forensic Analysis of Content Hiding Android Applications

Rughani

2017

IJARCSSE

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Abstract-In this era of smartphones and with the availability of sophisticated anti-forensic applications, it is a big challenge for forensic investigators to retrieve information hidden using anti-forensic techniques. This paper discusses forensic analysis of content hiding android applications. The work mentioned in this paper is carried out to retrieve maximum information related to how these applications store data, whether they encrypt the data or not, how the credentials and patterns are preserved, etc. Outcome of this work will help forensic investigators in handling content hiding android applications, which if not investigated may hide lots of crucial information. It is not only android that changed the whole world, but advancement in high speed Internet has also played equal role. As per the statistics from internetlivestats [3], the number of Internet users has crossed over 3 billion in 2014 compared to less than one billion in 2005. In early days when there was less access to Internet, people where using mobile phones mainly for voice communication and messaging. But as both the technologies -smartphones and speed and accessibility of Internet -grew together, they opened a whole new world of smartphones and gadgets which allows them to connect to anything from anywhere at anytime. Keywords-Android ApplicationsHowever, even if you have mobile device and high speed Internet, you cannot do much until and unless you get interface to do your tasks, this is the reason the main contributors in this domain are application developers.The developers from all over the world have developed and are still developing variety of applications, ranging from games, utilities, financial apps, wallets and much more. Openness of android and ease of publishing apps to the Google play store has made it possible for developers to develop and publish unlimited apps for android users. As per the statistics published by statista [4], Google Play Store was most recently placed at 2.8 million apps in March 2017. This figure shows how versatile the application market is.As being an open platform, Google play store hosts applications for various purposes. Though, majority of applications are designed to assist end users in their routine work, many of them are developed with other intentions. One such purpose is to allow users to maintain their privacy. There are hundreds of applications which allow users to hide their contents including multimedia files, messages, and much more. These applications in general, also support locking access to applications.These content hiding applications are mostly aimed to provide privacy to the end users, but this may not be case in all conditions. If we look at the other side of privacy, then the hidden content by the end user may restrict forensic investigation process, especially when such phone was used by a victim or the suspect. This paper emphasizes on forensic analysis of such content hiding applications to assist forensic investigators in solving a crime. Following sections of the paper di...

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Section: Privacy or Anti-forensicsmentioning

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Forensic Analysis of Content Hiding Android Applications

Rughani

2017

IJARCSSE

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“…Political science has been rather silent on the topic of CPs, most studies instead focusing more broadly on encryption and internet governance (Herrera, 2002;Monsees, 2020;Schulze, 2017;Myers West, 2018). Shifting the focus to the practices of CPs also allows the conceptual focus to shift away from institutions and towards more mundane and decentered practices.…”

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Cryptoparties: empowerment in internet security

Monsees¹

2020

Internet Policy Review

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Cryptoparties (CPs) are a global movement of forums where citizens can come to learn how to improve their digital privacy and security. The present paper is one of the few empirical studies on CPs and is based on participant observation of three CPs. I demonstrate that the organisers of CPs strive for an egalitarian space for teaching and learning. Even though this goal is not always achieved, CPs might still serve as an example of citizen education in a technological society where every citizen needs to deal with complex technological issues. In addition, this paper contributes to the emerging debate on 'doing internet governance' , broadening our focus to include user-based and decentred practices. I argue for the political relevance of CPs showing how they enact decentred threat-scenarios to a non-expert public. Issue 4 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSI am deeply indebted to all the generous people who took the time to explain to me what Cryptoparties are about and corrected my many misconceptions. I hope this article does justice to their perpetuous work to make cyberspace a better place for all of us.

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“…his is important, since claims for higher regulation are made, even though regulation would only be truly efective if successfully implemented in all countries. Political efort to regulate the export of encryption or implementing weaker encryption is thus less discussed than debates occurring in the Us during the 1990s (Diie, Landau 1998;schulze 2017;steiger, schünemann, Dimmroth 2017).…”

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Encryption as a Security Technology. Notes on the German Debate on encryption, Uncertainty and Risk

Monsees

2019

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<p>This article contributes to the emerging literature on digital encryption as a political issue by focusing on the way in which debates about encryption are embedded in a broader security discourse. Drawing on empirical material from Germany, this article shows how debates on encryption bring its ambiguous nature to the fore. Encryption is seen as both a threat and a source of protection, it thus becomes clear that technology only acquires its political meaning in discourse. Furthermore, I show that security is discussed in terms of uncertainty, risks and complexity. The article concludes by arguing that this prevailing idea of security as risk leads to security measures that attempt to deal with complexity by involving a variety of actors, making multi-stakeholder approaches as a solution more plausible.</p>

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Clipper Meets Apple vs. FBI—A Comparison of the Cryptography Discourses from 1993 and 2016

Cited by 12 publications

References 8 publications

Forensic Analysis of Content Hiding Android Applications

Forensic Analysis of Content Hiding Android Applications

Cryptoparties: empowerment in internet security

Encryption as a Security Technology. Notes on the German Debate on encryption, Uncertainty and Risk

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