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You're right, but this is the first time (I know of) that a government has explicitly required backdoors and forcing tech companies to download malware/spyware
by mimixco 8y ago
You're right, but this is the first time (I know of) that a government has explicitly required backdoors and forcing tech companies to download malware/spyware to their customers' devices. This new law brazenly makes encryption useless and sets a dangerous precedent.
- djsumdog 8y agoThere was an attempt to do this in the 90s in the US, but it failed. There's a paper titled "Keys Under Doormats" that outlines the debate of that era: https://www.schneier.com/academic/paperfiles/paper-keys-under-doormats-CSAIL.pdf https://www.schneier.com/academic/paperfiles/paper-keys-unde...