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And we should worry about our politician's security too. What if they are blackmailed while in power? That creates a terrible national security situation. This
by 3131s 9y ago
And we should worry about our politician's security too. What if they are blackmailed while in power? That creates a terrible national security situation.
This line of argument would hopefully resonate with the constituencies of the politicians pushing hardest for these backdoors (although it's a fairly bipartisan effort).
- pbhjpbhj 9y agoWith backdoors, which I'm not advocating for incidentally, the TLAs know they're being blackmailed and can intervene. Without that access politicians can still be blackmailed but it's harder for the TLAs to know about it.
- 3131s 9y agoIs that necessarily true? With a scheme like key escrow, is there a sure-fire way to detect a hacker as opposed to an authorized user accessing data? At the very least it seems that if the NSA itself or some other agency were hacked (again) then this problem would still exist. The NSA has notably lacked this type of audit trail in their systems before, hence their inability to track Snowden.