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> When the back door is created, it cannot be destroyed. If the "backdoor" in question is a malicious signed OS update, then it can absolutely be destroyed. Th
by unfamiliar 10y ago
> When the back door is created, it cannot be destroyed.
If the "backdoor" in question is a malicious signed OS update, then it can absolutely be destroyed. There are plenty of reasons to avoid backdoors without imbuing them with mystical qualities like the inability to delete them.
- charliedevolve 10y agoSigned updates aren't secure either. Ask Microsoft.
- ethanbond 10y agoThe backdoor itself can be destroyed. The precedent of compelling a company to write an intrusion into its own software cannot be destroyed.