@misc{AABBx21,
    author = { Hal Abelson and Ross Anderson and Steven M. Bellovin and Josh Benaloh and Matt Blaze and Jon Callas
               and Whitfield Diffie and Susan Landau and Peter G. Neumann and Ronald L. Rivest and Jeffrey I. Schiller and
               Bruce Schneier and Vanessa Teague and Carmela Troncoso },
   title = { Bugs in our Pockets: The Risks of Client-Side Scanning },
   year = { 2021 },
   date = { 2021-10-14 },                  
   eprint = { 2110.07450 },
   archivePrefix = { arXiv },
   primaryClass={ cs.CR },
   urla = { <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.07450">arXiv</a> },                  
   abstract = {
       Our increasing reliance on digital technology for personal, economic, and government affairs
       has made it essential to secure the communications and devices of private citizens, businesses,
       and governments. This has led to pervasive use of cryptography across society.
       Despite its evident advantages, law enforcement and national security agencies have
       argued that the spread of cryptography has hindered access to evidence and intelligence.
       Some in industry and government now advocate a new technology to access targeted data:
       client-side scanning (CSS). Instead of weakening encryption or providing law enforcement
       with backdoor keys to decrypt communications, CSS would enable on-device analysis of data in the clear.
       If targeted information were detected, its existence and, potentially, its source,
       would be revealed to the agencies; otherwise, little or no information would leave the client device.
       Its proponents claim that CSS is a solution to the encryption versus public safety debate:
       it offers privacy -- in the sense of unimpeded end-to-end encryption -- and the ability to
       successfully investigate serious crime. In this report, we argue that CSS neither guarantees
       efficacious crime prevention nor prevents surveillance. Indeed, the effect is the opposite.
       CSS by its nature creates serious security and privacy risks for all society while the assistance
       it can provide for law enforcement is at best problematic. There are multiple ways in which
       client-side scanning can fail, can be evaded, and can be abused.                  
   }
}