124 karma · joined August 1, 2013
I do wish Dianna the best recovery and future progress.
If you look at what the orchestra did and remove factors you know are irrelevant for the applicants then you should move towards a more unbiased state independent of what the number actually is. The problem is to find out what bias you have. One way is to compare the people who apply with the people you hire. You can see what traits you select on, then you can decide if you think those traits are good or bad.
Is it possible for Google to remove bias? Isn't the real problem further upstream? I bet that if you look at all applicants applying for jobs at Google you will see the same skew as Google have in their offices already.
I think this article misses the point somewhat. This is not a backdoor, it is the entire point of the scheme. As I understood it CESG wants MIKEY-SAKKE primarily for use within the government or within companies working for the government.
For the network owner MIKEY-SAKKE is very convenient because it satisfies the criteria for Lawful interception[1] while also enabling end users to both authenticate and encrypt messages without actually talking to the network owner after the initial trust has been established. It works well as long as the user trust the network owner and you want to protect your users from external powers while maintaining the ability to decrypt any message in the network.