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> The risk, he said, was acceptable because “we are talking about consumer products and services such as messaging, smart phones, e-mail, and voice and data app

> The risk, he said, was acceptable because “we are talking about consumer products and services such as messaging, smart phones, e-mail, and voice and data applications,” and “not talking about protecting the nation’s nuclear launch codes.” There's a good reason not to use encryption schemes that have backdoors, they aren't safe and this pull quote betrays the fact that Barr knows that. I'd be willing to wager that the government isn't going to use backdoor-able encryption because the risk of failure is too great. While not being critical to national security, safety in storing your medical, financial records and your conversations with other is mission critical to citizens. Hopefully folks on capital hill see that.

0xDEFC0DE 7y ago
>While not being critical to national security, safety in storing your medical, financial records and your conversations with other is mission critical to citizens. Hopefully folks on capital hill see that. They aren't going to see it. The government will just use the non-backdoored version. If a company gets its data popped because of the backdoor, the government will just blame the company, or it's acceptable losses because they catch some bad guys. Everyone should be super, super, super pessimistic that attempts like these will be handled in the interests of citizens.