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Maybe you just have a faulty sarcasm detector?
It's no longer possible to tell. Some of the ideas that avg Americans have on the way just about anything works is frightening. My favorite lately is that the US was the real bad guy in WWII because we used nukes.
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> The closed-sourceness is only a tiny part of the problem, too - a lot of the worst attacks so far are actually in open source based EFI firmware, which is riddled with bugs. Can you elaborate and/or provide context/links?
https://eclypsium.com/blog/understanding-detecting-pixiefail... https://binarly.io/posts/The_Far_Reaching_Consequences_of_Lo...
Now the argument coming from civil society for backdoors is based on CSAM: > Heat Initiative is led by Sarah Gardner, former vice president of external affairs for the nonprofit Thorn, which works to use new technologies to combat child exploitation online and sex trafficking. In 2021, Thorn lauded Apple's plan to develop an iCloud CSAM scanning feature. Gardner said in an email to CEO Tim Cook on Wednesday, August 3…
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I never understood the story about the book-printed PGP source code. Isn't source code protected speech under the first amendment anyway, regardless of the form in which it is transmitted? All kinds of media receive first amendment protection, including things like monetary donations, corporate speech, art, etc. I've never heard of there being a requirement for the printed form. Did the interpretation of the first am…
The idea was to make it blatantly clear that it's not a "munition".
And why is it more "clear" with a printed book vs. an emailed text file?
As this is from 2016 it doesn't include this new fun revelation: > 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. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_AG
My guess would be quite a few in the soft privacy selling business, such as VPN or email providers.
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The idea was to make it blatantly clear that it's not a "munition".
Why would that matter, if source code is protected speech anyway? And why is it more "clear" with a printed book vs. an emailed text file?
I think anchoring it to something old school like a book was a good call.
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I know. We definitely aren't a nation founded on outright treason and insurrection, and thumbing our nose at authority and doing the moral thing isn't in our DNA in any way, shape, or form. Frustrating that some people think otherwise.
Your frustration is misguided. Simply do not confuse illegality with immorality. Human beings generally want to feel like they're doing more good than bad.
As for "the DNA of a nation," we would probably spend a few hours figuring out the definition of what that even is just for starters.
As this is from 2016 it doesn't include this new fun revelation: > 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. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_AG
[0]: A Brief History of NSA Backdoors (2013), https://www.ethanheilman.com/x/12/index.html
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A backdoor, which works anywhere and way better than the wrench option.
They don't need it, which was my point. They have all the tools the need right now to get what they want. Why should anyone grant them more?
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I know. We definitely aren't a nation founded on outright treason and insurrection, and thumbing our nose at authority and doing the moral thing isn't in our DNA in any way, shape, or form. Frustrating that some people think otherwise.
There can be moral reasons for treason. The founding fathers certainly considered themselves moral and principled. Your frustration is misguided. Simply do not confuse illegality with immorality. Human beings generally want to feel like they're doing more good than bad. As for "the DNA of a nation," we would probably spend a few hours figuring out the definition of what that even is just for starters.