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Internet Surveillance

links: SPA TOC - Internet Security - Index

In 2013 Snowden leaked the existence of a Mass Surveillance program called PRISM. It could gather information from servers of Internet and cloud providers. Also included tapping of undersea cables. Scans the wireless spectrum.

Pervasive monitoring is an attack on internet security and privacy.

Countermeasures

  • Encryption through the whole protocol stack
  • Confidentiality by default
  • Developers to include encryption by default

links: SPA TOC - Internet Security - Index