Crypto Wars 2.0: Let the Trolling Commence (and don’t trust your phone)

An excellent article by Sven Tuerpe argues that we pay excessive attention to the problems of encryption and insufficient – to the problems of system security. I wholeheartedly agree with that statement. Read the original article: Crypto Wars 2.0: Let the Trolling Commence (and don’t trust your phone).

Security cannot be based solely on the encryption and encryption only. The system must be built to withstand attacks from outside and from within to be secure. There is a lot of expertise in building secure devices and creating secure software but none of that is used at all in the mobile devices of today. Whether those smartphones and tablets provide encryption or not is simply besides the point in most attack scenarios and for most kinds of usage. We have to get the devices secured in the first place before the discussion of encryption on them would begin to make sense.