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

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/07/23/us_encryption_backdoor/

by hsnewman • 7 years ago

40 13 7 years ago

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OedipusRex• 7 years ago

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 some other exploits), so they are demanding a key to every lock.

neuralRiot• 7 years ago

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.

sova4• 7 years ago

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.

apoph3nia2• 7 years ago

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

sova4• 7 years ago

Who?

mikevp• 7 years ago

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.

tracker12• 7 years ago

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.

sova4• 7 years ago

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.

craftinator• 7 years ago

I'll gladly purchase products overseas if the US chooses to break it's technology.

6c696e7578• 7 years ago

I'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.

tracker12• 7 years ago

So, 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?

sova4• 7 years ago

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.

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

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