Don't give me that crap about security, just put the backdoors in the encryption
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Re: Don't give me that crap about security, just put the backdoors in the encryption
#2This is a result of LEAs not adjusting to the modern world. Policing city streets and physical locations is nothing like policing technology. LEAs don't see a difference between a lock on a door and a cryptographic lock on a cellphone. They can get a warrant to unlock the door, or worse just kick it in. Even if they did get a warrant to unlock a phone, if there is no key they cannot "kick" the door in (unless the use some other exploits), so they are demanding a key to every lock.
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#3Adding backdoors would lead to the Huaweization of American tech companies -- Sales of US tech products outside of the US would drop drastically. And the non-stupid bad actors (however small that subset is) would use something open-source, or perhaps sourced from their non-US allies.
Re: Don't give me that crap about security, just put the backdoors in the encryption
#4This is a result of LEAs not adjusting to the modern world. Policing city streets and physical locations is nothing like policing technology. LEAs don't see a difference between a lock on a door and a cryptographic lock on a cellphone. They can get a warrant to unlock the door, or worse just kick it in. Even if they did get a warrant to unlock a phone, if there is no key they cannot "kick" the door in (unless the use…
They require all homes to have a rear door with a cheap padlock that "only they" will have the key. The funny thing of all this is that it accomplishes exactly nothing.
Re: Don't give me that crap about security, just put the backdoors in the encryption
#5This is a result of LEAs not adjusting to the modern world. Policing city streets and physical locations is nothing like policing technology. LEAs don't see a difference between a lock on a door and a cryptographic lock on a cellphone. They can get a warrant to unlock the door, or worse just kick it in. Even if they did get a warrant to unlock a phone, if there is no key they cannot "kick" the door in (unless the use…
It's funny how the tl;dr of these articles usually just amounts to "Oh, so they're just lazy and overbearing thieves."
Re: Don't give me that crap about security, just put the backdoors in the encryption
#6I'll gladly purchase products overseas if the US chooses to break it's technology.
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#7I'd be surprised if this doesn't already exist in some shape or form. Is this article just a coverup to lead people to believe it doesn't? The big tech companies are pretty expensive for a reason, and likely that half the added cost goes to funding 20% more infrastructure to continue projects like PRISM. We make it so easy by putting all our data in a few companies. Have hooks in Google/AWS/MS and you're pretty much set.
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#8So, what he's saying is he wants China, Russia, etc to be able to read all of Congress', Senate's and President's emails, messages and tap all phone calls?
Re: Don't give me that crap about security, just put the backdoors in the encryption
#9Adding backdoors would lead to the Huaweization of American tech companies -- Sales of US tech products outside of the US would drop drastically. And the non-stupid bad actors (however small that subset is) would use something open-source, or perhaps sourced from their non-US allies.
I'm curious how much it's affected Australia since they passed a similar, though incredibly weak law.
Web Crypto + WebRTC + keybase === end to end, peer to peer, encryption.
Re: Don't give me that crap about security, just put the backdoors in the encryption
#10This is a result of LEAs not adjusting to the modern world. Policing city streets and physical locations is nothing like policing technology. LEAs don't see a difference between a lock on a door and a cryptographic lock on a cellphone. They can get a warrant to unlock the door, or worse just kick it in. Even if they did get a warrant to unlock a phone, if there is no key they cannot "kick" the door in (unless the use…
They require all homes to have a rear door with a cheap padlock that "only they" will have the key. The funny thing of all this is that it accomplishes exactly nothing.
Inviolable control isolated to the carpals, metacarpals, and phalanges of a few... could very well be the "what we want to accomplish" which is a more worrisome truth than we can admit as a representative republic without a ranked choice ballot.