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If the FBI get what they want, then the back door will be installed and the next-generation payments infrastructure will be just as prone to fraud as the last-g
by crusso 11y ago
If the FBI get what they want, then the back door will be installed and the next-generation payments infrastructure will be just as prone to fraud as the last-generation card infrastructure, with its card skimmers and identity theft.
How Stross made the leap from a special version of the OS that the FBI could use to eventually crack a password to the easy clone-on-use nature of a card skimmer is completely farcical and looks like something that the mainstream non-tech press would come up with.
Just as prone to fraud? I don't understand the need for that kind of hyperbole in an article that looks like it was intended to be taken seriously.
- merpnderp 11y agoLook I dislike that kind of hyperbole also. But I think there is a clearly defined middle step. If the FBI can force Apple to create a new OS. They can force them to install backdoors in every new OS. Then the phones become "...just as prone to fraud as the last-generation card infrastructure." And given Juniper systems was likely a government placed backdoor, there is ample evidence this is true.
- xigency 11y agoProbably more related to the concerns that a judge would compel Apple to turn over their source code and signing key to software, which basically gives the government and any agent with access unlimited authority to tamper with Apple software and devices. Cracking passwords is also bad.