Princeton academic Edward Felten has urged the information security and wider technology community to engage with intelligence agencies and governments in a constructive way to drive better privacy outcomes, even if it requires active participation in intelligence activities.
Felten, the director of the Centre for Information Technology Policy at
Princeton University, provided attendees at his keynote address at the AusCERT conference
this morning a five-step plan for restoring trust in computing in the
wake of Edward Snowden’s expose of the NSA’s online espionage
activities.