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Indeed, in the west we are lucky (in some sense) that our tech is big enough that it is able to band together and stand up against unreasonable demands from the
by Calamity 7y ago
Indeed, in the west we are lucky (in some sense) that our tech is big enough that it is able to band together and stand up against unreasonable demands from the government.
In China, I can't imagine Huawei/Tencent/etc refusing to help the government break into someone's phone or create a backdoor into an "encrypted" chat.
- throwaway857384 7y agoDon't western governments ask for the data, then tell the company they can't say anything to their customers or anyone else... Basically, the same thing, but with a different description.
- Riverheart 7y agoSure, Governments can. The difference is companies can fight it in court. And win. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/12/how-tech-companies-can-fight-their-users-courts https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/12/how-tech-companies-can...
- slezyr 7y ago> Indeed, in the west we are lucky (in some sense) that our tech is big enough that it is able to band together and stand up against unreasonable demands from the government. I assume microsoft isn't big enough, because it was stripping encryption from Skype and making it centralized.
- Calamity 7y agoAs far as I know, Skype is E2EE..