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ROUNDTABLE: Experts react to President Biden’s exec order in the aftermath of Colonial Pipeline hack

The Last Watchdog

Given this lack of centralized control, communication sharing is essential. Colonial pipeline is a really good case study for the whole critical infrastructure industry. Of course, we live in a comparatively free part of the world. The US government does not own or control Internet traffic, as some nations such as China does.

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Q&A: The troubling implications of normalizing encryption backdoors — for government use

The Last Watchdog

Should law enforcement and military officials have access to a digital backdoor enabling them to bypass any and all types of encryption that exist today? Machine to machine connection and communication needs to be authenticated to access systems, so this technology is where the rubber meets the road, with respect to this debate.