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Your own government also has more tools to use against you. You'll pass through your own border more frequently, you're more available to be arrested, harassed
by chillacy 6y ago
Your own government also has more tools to use against you. You'll pass through your own border more frequently, you're more available to be arrested, harassed by LE, etc.
How about as a lover of liberty, _nobody_ snoops on our data?
- codemonkey-zeta 6y agoOf course you are correct, but the tools available to other governments still concern me greatly. Are we actually presently capable of making sure nobody snoops on our data? If so then I agree it is a better solution. But is it not better to use an imperfect plan which is implementable than wait for a perfect plan (if such a thing exists for cyber-security) to become implementable when a threat is present?
- chillacy 6y agoDepends how paranoid you want to be, and to what degree of certainty (after all it's impossible to prove a negative). But in general, backdoors for "the good guys" are just more surface area for "the bad guys", and developers of products which take security seriously lock themselves out too.
- codemonkey-zeta 6y agoIs this about installing backdoors? Or is it just about ensuring the network doesn't run on known-compromised hardware/software?