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What to expect in 2016

Internet is everywhere, so are the lurking cybercriminals. It’s easier than ever before to hack into a
Wi-Fi network, as proven even by a seven year old girl. Encrypting data remains the solely solution
for this dangers, particularly when mobile devices are accounted for more than 50% of ecommerce
sales.

Malware & Adware

As everything around us is becoming smart, so will the attacks evolve using more polymorphic
behaviors than before. We should also expect a development of complex adware in the next future.
Highly effective and targeted attacks will replace large scale operations making law enforcement
agencies work more intense into taking down criminal networks. The new magic hat or Tarnkappe
for illicit activities will be the localization of malware deployment.

Encryption

Encryption has shown a revolutionary financial ecosystem can come to life. The evolution of the
cryptocurrency Bitcoin in such a very short time is a validation for it. Cryptographic standards are
also the basis of the internet as we know it.

United Nations declared access to the Internet a basic human right. And as shown by so many
governments, censorship is also part of the system. By providing a free service, we support access
to uncensored Internet allowing people to connect with each other and stay informed.

Blaming encryption in the name of terrorism and promising peace in the world is definitely not a way
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to go. On January the 15 , tech giants in the Silicon Valley met Barack Obama’s delegation that will
include NSA chair Admiral Mike Roger, the director of national intelligence, James Clapper and
FBI’s director James Comey.

I can only hope the tech participants had the strength to stand for privacy.

Privacy tools as well as encrypted connections must stay. Another possible threat for cryptography
in the next future is quantum computing.

A major reason why the industry must reanalyze cryptographic specifications and standards and
prepare for the dim future that lies ahead. Protecting privacy and digital citizens must become an
ambition as well a responsibility. In 2016 and later.

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