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End-to-end encryption – The case for a backdoor, CurePrivacy
- taxcoder 6y agoBad guys and "I love my country but fear my government" are pretty strong counter-arguments to the ideas in this article. The comparison to a physical search falls pretty flat, IMO, because of the secrecy digital searches allow.
- allears 6y agoIf encryption is outlawed, only outlaws will have encryption. And it won't be hard to find. You can't put the genie back in the bottle.
- taxcoder 6y agoAnd if marriage is made illegal, only outlaws will have in-laws.
- daly 6y agoThe lack of good mathematical education is showing.
- daly 6y agoHaving worked in security for years I can say that almost no one attacks encryption. The fruitful attacks are on the channel and the endpoints. Watch metadata, compromise the endpoints, use the xkcd wrench, follow the money. Why attack the front door when there is a picture window beside it? Don't attack the tank, attack the fuel supply. The frontal attack is only there to pin the opposition while you compromise the flanks. Backdoor encryption is security theater. Which raises the question "What is the real goal?". Is the goal to say "We don't know what you did but you encrypted it so we can lock you up."? Then you can fake "encrypted communication" from anyone to anyone and lock up anyone you want until they provide "the key" they don't know. Torture them for the key. Then try them in a show court and hang them.
- docuru 6y agoIn the past, there are some cases hacker will attack encryption. For example, those small shopping website which store users payment (not many do it now). Some store leave a plain text data, some have some sort of encryption. I’ve been in some forum where hackers share the encryption for other members to brainstorm how to decrypt it. As your point, I agree bad actors will look at the front door first