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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

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tracker1 wrote: post #9
mikevp wrote: post #3

Adding 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.

Can the Australian law be invoked in such a way to make a backdoor for government eyes in a publicly and widely distributed software? If so, then it's some big brother shit.

Re: Don't give me that crap about security, just put the backdoors in the encryption

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Post by sova »

apoph3nia wrote: post #5
OedipusRex wrote: post #2

This 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."

Who?

Re: Don't give me that crap about security, just put the backdoors in the encryption

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Post by sova »

BARR, there is no way to untangle the yarn produced in nations outside our own. LET IT BE KNOWN that combatting encryption with courtside pry will only lead to weakened civil liberties, more secret courts to cover up your secret breaking of the law, and more vulnerability and security disclosures both civilian and governmental. Introduce no back door, appeal to peoples' sense of ethics. We are not all beasts like you may have been convinced.

Re: Don't give me that crap about security, just put the backdoors in the encryption

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Post by apoph3nia »

sova wrote: post #12
apoph3nia wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's funny how the tl;dr of these articles usually just amounts to "Oh, so they're just lazy and overbearing thieves."

Who?

I was replying to @OedipusRex. The "demanding a key to every lock" bit.
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