Security, safety and privacy

Track abstract

"Although the requirement for security and privacy is understood by most developers, it is often regarded as an annoyance that hinders their creativity and abilty to create cool applications. In this track you should learn how to make your applications a bit more secure, whitout loosing their coolness. Privacy often get compromised by security faults in software, but it is also ever more accepted that you by design has to forego your privacy, e.g. in new social media apps. But should we be so relaxed regarding privacy, just because ""we have nothing to hide""? And is widespread use of end-to-end encryption as irresponsible as the intelligence community would like us to believe? "