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Another thing is important: trust. As a naive user I have no idea what's going on on my phone, hardware or software wise We are essentially trusting these comp
by Synaesthesia 10y ago
Another thing is important: trust. As a naive user I have no idea what's going on on my phone, hardware or software wise
We are essentially trusting these companies with everything. Encryption is no good if Apple and Google provide backdoors to their systems to the CIA or NSA.
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- roywiggins 10y agoEncryption in transit defeats dragnet surveillance. Forcing the NSA et al to actually break into the phones they're interested in substantially reduces the amount of information they can actually collect. They can't just tap internet backbones and read everything, like they do with plaintext communication.
- white-flame 10y agoBut they can say "Hey, Google/Apple/Microsoft/Facebook/etc, give us access on your end for our dragnet to work after it comes in from encrypted transit. Also, this is a NSL so neener neener."