Presentation: Tweet"Reflections on Mistrusting Trust: how Policy & Technical People use the T-word in Opposite Senses"
Since well before the crypto wars of the 1990s, the worlds of policy and technical security have invoked the word "trust" with meanings that are in actuality polar opposites, and usually (but not always) without realizing they are doing so. This talk will exhume some forgotten lessons in duplicity, and argue that the last thing we should try to do is rebuild "trust" in one of these senses, and doing so in the other of these senses is not going to be very easy (after the irreversible changes in public perceptions brought about by Edward Snowden). Along the way, we will explain what happened after the crypto wars and how we arrived in a very bad place for public policy and democracy, and what we can try to do about it now.
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