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Check out Dropbox's statement: "Governments should never install backdoors into online services or compromise infrastructure to obtain user data." In essence
by Tloewald 11y ago
Check out Dropbox's statement:
"Governments should never install backdoors into online services or compromise infrastructure to obtain user data."
In essence we want companies to state the following:
1) They won't cooperate with governments (or other third parties) and have never cooperated in adding backdoors.
2) They won't create, and have never created their own backdoors. They will not hold keys so that they can't be forced to surrender customer data.
3) They will not grant and have never granted access to their servers.
Even Apple's statements allow for past or pre-existing back doors or cooperation. Given a company may willingly or have been forced to cooperate in the past, or may have had backdoors in the past, it should own up (either specifically or as much as legally possible) and state that this has stopped.
- eevilspock 11y agoDid you miss this in the article? > In addition, Apple has never worked with any government agency from any country to create a “back door” in any of our products or services. We have also never allowed any government access to our servers. And we never will. As for Dropbox, is Condoleezza Rice still on their board? http://www.drop-dropbox.com http://www.drop-dropbox.com
- Tloewald 11y agoApple's statement is not quite airtight. E.g. they could have implemented a backdoor without government agency involvement; but it's by far the best statement. Condi Rice's presence on Dropbox's concern was why I went to check their statement first.