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G7 Comes Out in Favor of Encryption Backdoors
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- deogeo 8y agoIf intelligence agencies really want access to someone's data, they can plant bugs, or spy on them as they type in the password, or compel them with jail time. This isn't about access - it's about cheap, covert access, and in bulk. It's not enough for them to metaphorically break into your house and go through your stuff - they want you to remain unaware of it. Only not just your house, but everyone's.
- Mirioron 8y agoAnd not just once, but all the time, in real-time.
- squarefoot 8y agoA good reason to support Coreboot, Libreboot and similar projects since most of us already run hardware that can be exploited remotely, probably by design. https://www.eff.org/it/node/95854 https://www.eff.org/it/node/95854
- Mirioron 8y agoI think the only way lawmakers will learn that weakening encryption is a terrible thing to do is if one country does it and their banking system gets crushed by it. Or something else as disastrous would have to happen for them to learn.
- ianlevesque 8y agoLike we’ve learned from all the other private sector security breaches?
- Mirioron 8y agoBut those weren't due to the actions of the lawmakers. They won't learn from that.
- thestartup 8y agoWhat about developing a three-party system where the third party doesn't have any "master key" (to prevent a single key from compromising the encryption system), and perhaps the third party has something akin to a "slow hash" that is time consuming to decrypt (to prevent bulk real-time decryption by NSA, etc.) but still allows LEO access when truly needed? Maybe the third party's encryption would, in this sense, be much more difficult to decrypt, so that the three-party system would not be significantly weaker than the two-party system? There is already unbreakable encryption publicly available for those who wish to use it. I personally feel that it's irresponsible to deploy unbreakable two-party systems at any national/global scale.
- acct1771 8y agoWhy would you be trying to enable this?
- thestartup 8y agoAs stated, in my opinion, it's irresponsible to deploy unbreakable two-party encryption at a national/global level. IMO, authorities should have a way to decrypt the encryption used by the masses, when needed. Further, it's clear that policy makers will typically push for such a mechanism. If such three-party systems are to be deployed, it would further your privacy cause to help to develop such a system, if your efforts to push back without compromise do not bear fruit.
- deogeo 8y agoIs it also irresponsible to allow cars and houses without always-listening microphones planted in them?
- thestartup 8y agoNot relevant to the topic.
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- simonblack 8y agoClipper was a disaster (what? 30 years ago?) but we continually have idiot governments still persisting in trying to make square wheels.