Privacy, Crime, National Security, Human Rights & You in the Middle • Bert Hubert • GOTO 2023

This presentation was recorded at GOTO Amsterdam 2023. #GOTOcon #GOTOams Bert Hubert - Geeky Entrepreneur @ahuopjouwbuis RESOURCES ABSTRACT Computers and online services are now involved in everything we do: you can’t drive a car, use public transport, go to the doctor, buy or pay something without traversing astounding amounts of software. This software logs what we do, often to make money from advertisers, and as such we leave a highly detailed trail of our activities. This trail can be used for useful purposes, like troubleshooting, and even perhaps to offer us more tailored services. Simultaneously, criminals who try to defraud us also leave these trails, and conceivably you or the police could use that data to keep us safer. However, if the data leaks, we all have a problem. Meanwhile, governments often want to gain (bulk) access to metadata for national security purposes. As developers, we sit in the middle of this. What we don’t log or keep track of can’t leak. It also can’t help fight crime, but it may also leave governments without tools they want to do intelligence work with. It turns out that as developers, our choices have a big impact. If we implement end-to-end encryption, our users have more privacy - even if they use this for bad purposes. And if we don’t, we leave them open to government surveillance. In this talk, we’ll go over these tradeoffs, with specific attention to how one large phone manufacturer navigated this landscape. [...] Download slides and read the full abstract here: RECOMMENDED BOOKS Liz Rice • Container Security • Liz Rice • Kubernetes Security • Aaron Parecki • OAuth 2.0 Simplified • Aaron Parecki • OAuth 2.0 Servers • Aaron Parecki • The Little Book of OAuth 2.0 RFCs • Erdal Ozkaya • Cybersecurity: The Beginner’s Guide • Richer & Sanso • OAuth 2 in Action • #Privacy #Crime #NationalSecurity #HumanRights #Security #CyberSecurity #BertHubert Looking for a unique learning experience? Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket at Sign up for updates and specials at SUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNEL - new videos posted almost daily.