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I would really like to be a fly on the wall, when American diplomats are going to try to explain to its allies that them having a backdoor to all cellphones in
by einarfd 9y ago
I would really like to be a fly on the wall, when American diplomats are going to try to explain to its allies that them having a backdoor to all cellphones in the world is a good idea.
Then capping it all of by coming up with a strategy of how to sell this idea to their electorate, which some places, have a very dim view of American privacy laws.
In addition if Google and Apple builds some backdoor into their products, any regime of any country which Google and Apple operates in will demand to get the same backdoor. How are they going to not give them that, they won't be able to.
I'm sure the Justice Department, and the FBI does not care about foreign implications of their wishes, but their are parts of the American government that has to. It is deeply naive to believe that something like this will fly on the international stage.
- Gys 9y ago> any regime of any country which Google and Apple operates in will demand to get the same backdoor Exactly. So we end up with 1000s of people (many services from many countries) that have authorized access to your phone. This cannot be contained in any way. Not something to look forward to....
- wmf 9y agoAny backdoor would probably be per-country so you have to pay attention to what country your phone is registered in.
- confounded 9y agoWhy do you think this? The manufacturer is obliged to maintain a backdoor, and give access on demand. The US is a big enough market that they could force this to be built. Other countries will just write similar laws to get the same access to the same backdoors.
- Gys 9y ago'Sorry Mr NSA, but the user choose German as UI language, so we only enabled the German backdoor'. Sure...
- Hello71 9y agoIt will go something like this: > Why would we agree to this? The privacy of our citizens is at stake! > You'll be able to spy on them too! > Done!