What Matthew Green thinks about government

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Cryptographer and professor at Johns Hopkins University, where he works on applied cryptography and user privacy. He writes A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering, which is where most public arguments about messaging encryption, client-side scanning and cloud backup end up being adjudicated.

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1. 20 Jul 2021

   Our readingWhat made NSO different was not its exploits but its scale: it turned state-grade surveillance into something any government could buy.

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   Their wordsRather: NSO’s genius is that they’ve done something that attackers were never incentivized to do in this past: democratize access to exploit technology.

   ↗A case against security nihilismblog.cryptographyengineering.com 2nd of 2 in this piece