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A play for political power. The NSA probably doesn't care if data is encrypted---they most likely already have a back-door to take data before its encrypted or
by jostmey 11y ago
A play for political power. The NSA probably doesn't care if data is encrypted---they most likely already have a back-door to take data before its encrypted or after its decrypted. So if encryption is used, the FBI will be dependent on the NSA.
- nickik 11y agoI disagree. While they try to build backdoors its not that simple. Even if you have backdoor to every laptop in the world, its not an easy thing to smuggle out lots of data without people noticing. We know from Snowden that they do not have backdoors into everything. Its about economics, if they can listen in on the exchange its essentially free. If they have to backdoor every end user device, its gone cost a literal shit ton of money.
- throwawayaway 11y agohttp://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=8623643&cid=51315653 http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=8623643&cid=5131565... It's really pretty damn easy. http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=8623643&cid=51313569 http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=8623643&cid=5131356... Win 7, 8 and 10 are done. OSX has spotlight upload to microsoft in plain sight. What else does OSX have under the hood? Phones are pretty much a foregone conclusion in my estimation, with the exception of cyanogen mod or something.
- nickpsecurity 11y agoI agree he's screwing around. They do care, though, because encryption makes their job more difficult. They want to be able to go through every potential source of usable intel as quickly as possible. Can't do that if they're having to sneak around with backdoors on a per device basis. They'd rather use the backdoors for attacks on high-priority targets who are dodging other stuff. Snowden leaks confirmed that hypothesis. Probably still true for economic reasons as other commenter noted.