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It is a back door and copy pasting Wikipedia doesn’t make it not. Key escrow, public key replacement and message escrow are all backdoors, covert or not. They a

It is a back door and copy pasting Wikipedia doesn’t make it not. Key escrow, public key replacement and message escrow are all backdoors, covert or not. They are all unacceptable. I’m from the privacy argument, and will except nothing less that complete confidentially between peers. Anything except this position I perceive as an attack and will defend my position with my life. The other point is “nothing to hide”. Reality is we all have something to hide, and given enough scrutiny we all fall. “If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.” — Cardinal Richelieu There can be no compromise in this argument. There are many jurisdictions on the planet that would love to use this back door to start rounding people up. An real world example might be 2 gay men communicating in a private messenger about a rendezvous - somewhere that they are not accepted. Law of their land is that it is illegal. Your back door just cost them their lives. You might live somewhere where law enforcement is not a risk to your life, but many do, and this kind of thinking leads to tyranny and death.

charcircuit 5y ago
>It is a back door and copy pasting Wikipedia doesn’t make it not. What is your definition of a back door. All of the common ones I see involve secrecy of it's existence. >Reality is we all have something to hide, and given enough scrutiny we all fall. I believe that if society is more understanding and accepting this will be less of a problem. With all of this information out there things could be normalized instead of forced to be secret. >Law of their land is that it is illegal. Your back door just cost them their lives. Personally, I believe that we should be trying to change laws, not helping people break the law. If it's illegal to be gay either stop it or accept the realization that you are going to die. My "back door" didn't cost me their lives, them breaking the law did. Of course not everyone will agree with my point of view especially in extreme cases that relate to people being killed for breaking the law.
- randomhodler84 5y ago
  Got it, arbitrary laws are more important than humanity. Cops are all good, the law is always just and one should just stop and accept the state wants one dead for how they were born. Enough.

charcircuit 5y ago

>It is a back door and copy pasting Wikipedia doesn’t make it not. What is your definition of a back door. All of the common ones I see involve secrecy of it's existence. >Reality is we all have something to hide, and given enough scrutiny we all fall. I believe that if society is more understanding and accepting this will be less of a problem. With all of this information out there things could be normalized instead of forced to be secret. >Law of their land is that it is illegal. Your back door just cost them their lives. Personally, I believe that we should be trying to change laws, not helping people break the law. If it's illegal to be gay either stop it or accept the realization that you are going to die. My "back door" didn't cost me their lives, them breaking the law did. Of course not everyone will agree with my point of view especially in extreme cases that relate to people being killed for breaking the law.

randomhodler84 5y ago
Got it, arbitrary laws are more important than humanity. Cops are all good, the law is always just and one should just stop and accept the state wants one dead for how they were born. Enough.