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So there are those who want backdoors that only (their) government can access. Tech people say that's impossible. And the response is "do it anyway". I wish th

So there are those who want backdoors that only (their) government can access. Tech people say that's impossible. And the response is "do it anyway". I wish those people would attempt to construct a proof-of-concept. Or they could could hire someone to do it. Then when the result is shown to the world and everyone laughs at how bad it is, maybe it'll start to be clear that what they want is "magic", not real. The government might as well mandate the energy companies to develop perpetual motion machines.

lern_too_spel 6y ago
No, they're mandating backdoors that the companies can access, which the governments can then compel the companies to use on individuals they want to wiretap. This is not only not impossible but already the case in practice for most currently deployed communications systems, including several that are nominally E2E encrypted, like iMessage. They just want to encode it into law. https://www.wired.com/2015/09/apple-fighting-privacy-imessage-still-problems/ https://www.wired.com/2015/09/apple-fighting-privacy-imessag...
fsflover 6y ago
>I wish those people would attempt to construct a proof-of-concept. Here it is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transportation_Security_Administration#Checked_baggage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transportation_Security_Admini... It failed of course, but since their actual goal is not safety but control, they are going to continue pushing such things.