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This type of thing needs to be considered, because I think people are really fooling themselves if they think Apple, et al won't be required to do this within t
by strictnein 9y ago
This type of thing needs to be considered, because I think people are really fooling themselves if they think Apple, et al won't be required to do this within the next 5-10 years.
There will be an incident that turns public opinion on this to such a degree that it will be inevitable.
- cortesoft 9y agoHow would it even work? How would some random hardware feature stop me from using PGP in user space?
- coldcode 9y agoNone this sort of thing could only be done in hardware.
- loup-vaillant 9y agoIt wouldn't. But convincing people may be easy. Just wait for the next bomb to go off or something, then say they were using encryption in their communication.
- bo1024 9y agoFor example, by logging all of your keystrokes / input actions and storing them. (edit: this is why people are so concerned about things like Intel ME)
- cortesoft 9y agoLogging them where? Intel ME doesn't have some huge storage location or anything.
- bo1024 9y agoWell, sending them over the network in real time is one option, or if we are talking custom hardware as in this discussion, then it could be made with local storage (and wouldn't need to be all that big...).
- willstrafach 9y agoThat can be blocked. Not to imply that your concern is invalid, but it would be difficult to enforce something like this when a countermeasure can easily be created.
- cortesoft 9y agoSending them over the network would be trivial to detect and block, since you could just look at the outgoing packets on the switch the computer is connected to.