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Excellent article. Nothing irritates me more than hyperbole about politicians and law enforcement. Already we have people saying "Macron wants to ban encryption
by peteretep 9y ago
Excellent article. Nothing irritates me more than hyperbole about politicians and law enforcement. Already we have people saying "Macron wants to ban encryption".
All that said, LE hasn't helped itself at all with over-zealous and blunt-edged approaches so far -- cf FBI cracking iPhones, the NSA dragnet with little oversight.
I don't mind the government being able to read my mail. I just want them to need a warrant first, that a judge has signed off on, and that's particular to me.
- rocqua 9y agoThis article promotes the idea of companies pushing malicious updates to specific users. Malicious in the sense of circumventing E2E encryption without notifying the user and even doing this retroactively? Suppose then, that we get deterministic compilation and an open-source client for E2E encryption. It would then be possible (or rather, much easier) to detect such malicious updates. Should such protection be made illegal? I agree that there is no principled objection to access to communications provided there is a warrant. However, if this requires weakening security far beyond such points, it is no longer obvious that the trade of is worth it.
- Zak 9y agoMarcon wants to ban complete systems where the encryption and overall security is effective enough that the provider of said system cannot intercept messages for the government. While that's technically different, the effect is the same.