Ubucon Europe 2019 - RFC 1984 Or why you should start worrying about encryption backdoors and...

This session happened during Ubucon Sintra 2019 - Sintra - Portugal https://sintra2019.ubucon.org/ --- »RFC 1984 Or why you should start worrying about encryption backdoors and mass data collection« by: Esther Payne RFC 1984 : What are RFCs and why do they matter? What is happening in the world now with mass surveillance? Also peacocks. --- In 1996 Brian E. Carpenter of IAB and Fred Baker of IETF wrote a co-statement on Cryptographic Technology and the Internet. This RFC wasn't a request for a technical standard, it was a statement on their concerns about Governments trying to restrict or interfere with Cryptography. They felt that there was a need to offer "All Internet Users an adequate degree of privacy" Since that time successive Governments around the world have sought to build backdoors into social media to access more citizen and visitor data. As of July 2019, the AG of the United States William Barr stated: “Some argue that, to achieve at best a slight incremental imp