GCHQ data snooping has "destroyed trust in British tech"

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GCHQ's online surveillance has destroyed trust in British technology companies and irrevocably damaged the nation’s information security industry, according to a cryptography expert.

GCHQ director Sir Ian Lobban said during an Intelligence and Security Committee hearing yesterday that the Edward Snowden leaks had made the agency’s efforts to de-anonymise and break encryption used by terrorists and paedophiles "far, far weaker".

But Ross Anderson, professor of security engineering at the University of Cambridge, told PC Pro that encryption experts were trying to make the internet safer, but GCHQ's mission was "exactly the opposite". He said: "We have no more in common with them [GCHQ] than the pope has with a brothel keeper."

He believes that now the truth is out on the agency’s snooping, no one will trust British technology companies over fears of GCHQ-ordained backdoors in their products, just as Huawei has been shunned in the US.

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/385285/gchq-data-snooping-has-destroyed-trust-in-british-tech

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