FBI director James Comey have publicly lobbied for the insertion of cryptographic “backdoors” into software and hardware to allow law enforcement agencies to bypass authentication and access a suspect’s data surreptitiously. Cybersecurity experts have unanimously condemned the idea, pointing out that such backdoors would fundamentally undermine encryption and could exploited by criminals, among other issues. "could e…
A brief history of the U.S. trying to add backdoors into encrypted data (2016)
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Re: A brief history of the U.S. trying to add backdoors into encrypted data (2016)
#12FBI director James Comey have publicly lobbied for the insertion of cryptographic “backdoors” into software and hardware to allow law enforcement agencies to bypass authentication and access a suspect’s data surreptitiously. Cybersecurity experts have unanimously condemned the idea, pointing out that such backdoors would fundamentally undermine encryption and could exploited by criminals, among other issues. "could e…
And Apple has a backdoor that only Apple can use. Why don't criminals exploit Apple's backdoor?
Re: A brief history of the U.S. trying to add backdoors into encrypted data (2016)
#13FBI director James Comey have publicly lobbied for the insertion of cryptographic “backdoors” into software and hardware to allow law enforcement agencies to bypass authentication and access a suspect’s data surreptitiously. Cybersecurity experts have unanimously condemned the idea, pointing out that such backdoors would fundamentally undermine encryption and could exploited by criminals, among other issues. "could e…
Not disingenuous. Keys are stolen or leaked all the time. And the blast radius of such a master key would be extremely large.
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#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
And Apple has a backdoor that only Apple can use. Why don't criminals exploit Apple's backdoor?
Which backdoor do you mean? I'm not an Apple expert by any means, but I thought they encrypted customer data in a way that even they can't get to it? Wasn't that the crux of this case, that Apple couldn't help the FBI due to security measures, prompting the agency to ask for a backdoor?
Re: A brief history of the U.S. trying to add backdoors into encrypted data (2016)
#15FBI director James Comey have publicly lobbied for the insertion of cryptographic “backdoors” into software and hardware to allow law enforcement agencies to bypass authentication and access a suspect’s data surreptitiously. Cybersecurity experts have unanimously condemned the idea, pointing out that such backdoors would fundamentally undermine encryption and could exploited by criminals, among other issues. "could e…
And Apple has a backdoor that only Apple can use. Why don't criminals exploit Apple's backdoor?
Re: A brief history of the U.S. trying to add backdoors into encrypted data (2016)
#16FBI director James Comey have publicly lobbied for the insertion of cryptographic “backdoors” into software and hardware to allow law enforcement agencies to bypass authentication and access a suspect’s data surreptitiously. Cybersecurity experts have unanimously condemned the idea, pointing out that such backdoors would fundamentally undermine encryption and could exploited by criminals, among other issues. "could e…
And Apple has a backdoor that only Apple can use. Why don't criminals exploit Apple's backdoor?
Re: A brief history of the U.S. trying to add backdoors into encrypted data (2016)
#17FBI director James Comey have publicly lobbied for the insertion of cryptographic “backdoors” into software and hardware to allow law enforcement agencies to bypass authentication and access a suspect’s data surreptitiously. Cybersecurity experts have unanimously condemned the idea, pointing out that such backdoors would fundamentally undermine encryption and could exploited by criminals, among other issues. "could e…
As Pauli said, "That's not even wrong". It cannot even meet the basic criteria for truth or falsehood.
It's simply naked hubris.
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#18Re: A brief history of the U.S. trying to add backdoors into encrypted data (2016)
#19> On 11 February 2020, The Washington Post, ZDF and SRF revealed that Crypto AG was secretly owned by the CIA in a highly classified partnership with West German intelligence, and the spy agencies could easily break the codes used to send encrypted messages.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
Which backdoor do you mean? I'm not an Apple expert by any means, but I thought they encrypted customer data in a way that even they can't get to it? Wasn't that the crux of this case, that Apple couldn't help the FBI due to security measures, prompting the agency to ask for a backdoor?
What's an update? They can sign and push any code they want remotely.
In practice though most people are screwed b/c it's all already in icloud.