The CIA director once said during a conference: "intelligence is the oldest profession in the world." Someone in the audience retorted: "No, it's prostitution! . Then he replied: "You're right, but still need to know where prostitutes! . For millennia, kings, queens, emperors and generals have sought to develop effective communications for governing their country or control their armies. At the same time, they were aware of the risks involved if their messages fell into enemy hands. It is the fear of those interceptions was behind the development of codes and numbers, which are techniques used to disguise a message in order to scramble the senses. We are indebted to Julius Caesar's famous figure that bears his name.
Confidentiality concerns led nations to create secret service, responsible for ensuring the security of communications by inventing and implementing the best possible codes. Meanwhile, the decoders enemy fought hard to break the codes. These activities have given rise to the "intelligence services". It is remarkable that the age-old confrontation between developers on one side and code breakers code on the other side has nourished a great advances in science (including mathematics) and technology. In this field too often the competition and even confrontation, constitutes a powerful stimulus to creativity and innovation. The outcome of World War II held at the Allied secret services' ability to break the encryption system Nazi (based on the use of the machine "Enigma", probably the first electromechanical machine to encode).
Business intelligence has a military origin. The military intelligence was very early based on the technique of encryption . Encryption is the only way to protect our privacy, or ensure the success of today's electronic markets. But growing demand and legitimate the public about encryption - protecting privacy - faces the need to enforce laws and protect national security. The debate about banking secrecy illustrates this. Banking secrecy is a legitimate aspiration of account holders (nobody likes that one delves into his accounts in the name of transparency) and a basic service offered by the bank to its customers in the same way that medical confidentiality is thereby creating a relationship of trust between doctor and patient. But secrecy can also cover criminal activities against which states have the duty to fight.
For decades, police and intelligence services have used plays to thwart the plans of terrorists or fighting against organized crime, mobilizing techniques increasingly sophisticated in which the state had a monopoly. But the men of power can invoke reasons of state to practice plays well illegitimate and divert these tools for personal purposes. That is why the defenders of individual rights to push the widespread use of encryption to protect the privacy of our private lives. Similarly, companies (including banks) are calling for a secure encryption for development their own information networks and to protect their sensitive information. Thus, private actors can freely dispose of the tools previously reserved for only the secret services.
For their part, the police put pressure on governments to restrict the private use of coding. On behalf of the fight against the laundering of dirty money or fraud (escape?) Tax, the tax authorities defend similar arguments.
There is always a difficult choice: what do we attribute the highest value, respect for our privacy policy or a (security) more effective? We find the more fundamental dilemma between liberty and security remains a precarious balance.
Members consider that the First World War was the war of chemists, because the mustard gas and chlorine were employed there for the first time. Similarly, the Second World War was that of physicists, because of last resort to the atomic bomb. Should there be a third world war, it would be war mathematicians, since they will control the next decisive weapon of war: information. In any case, it is already the argument economic competition and the instrument of economic intelligence.
Business intelligence has a military origin. The military intelligence was very early based on the technique of encryption . Encryption is the only way to protect our privacy, or ensure the success of today's electronic markets. But growing demand and legitimate the public about encryption - protecting privacy - faces the need to enforce laws and protect national security. The debate about banking secrecy illustrates this. Banking secrecy is a legitimate aspiration of account holders (nobody likes that one delves into his accounts in the name of transparency) and a basic service offered by the bank to its customers in the same way that medical confidentiality is thereby creating a relationship of trust between doctor and patient. But secrecy can also cover criminal activities against which states have the duty to fight.
For decades, police and intelligence services have used plays to thwart the plans of terrorists or fighting against organized crime, mobilizing techniques increasingly sophisticated in which the state had a monopoly. But the men of power can invoke reasons of state to practice plays well illegitimate and divert these tools for personal purposes. That is why the defenders of individual rights to push the widespread use of encryption to protect the privacy of our private lives. Similarly, companies (including banks) are calling for a secure encryption for development their own information networks and to protect their sensitive information. Thus, private actors can freely dispose of the tools previously reserved for only the secret services.
For their part, the police put pressure on governments to restrict the private use of coding. On behalf of the fight against the laundering of dirty money or fraud (escape?) Tax, the tax authorities defend similar arguments.
There is always a difficult choice: what do we attribute the highest value, respect for our privacy policy or a (security) more effective? We find the more fundamental dilemma between liberty and security remains a precarious balance.
Members consider that the First World War was the war of chemists, because the mustard gas and chlorine were employed there for the first time. Similarly, the Second World War was that of physicists, because of last resort to the atomic bomb. Should there be a third world war, it would be war mathematicians, since they will control the next decisive weapon of war: information. In any case, it is already the argument economic competition and the instrument of economic intelligence.
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