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The TSA demanded that luggage manufacturers begin making luggage that can accept a special key that only the TSA is supposed to have. The luggage companies comp
by dawnbreez 11y ago
The TSA demanded that luggage manufacturers begin making luggage that can accept a special key that only the TSA is supposed to have. The luggage companies complied.
Within a week, a TSA officer took a close-up picture of all 7 key variants; from this image, 3D models of the keys were made, and now you can print all 7 keys and open anyone's TSA-approved luggage.
The FBI is slightly more competent than the TSA. Slightly. I doubt trusting them with any access to my device is a good idea.
- venomsnake 11y agoYes. But that is why you shouldn't use apple products - because they left a theoretical backdoor in their devices. As long as the US law does not prevent manufacturers from producing arbitrary level of secured devices - it is totally OK for the FBI to enlist half of the world in attempts to crack it. The best security comes from open and auditable security schema and strong keys. If I make good implementation of AES and someone encrypts a file with it but provides its own password - I can give the feds the AES spec, the source code, I can even consult them on dictionary attacks and so on - and they still won't be able to decrypt it. Apple decided to go the other way.