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The government can’t bully you into decrypting your own data or releasing your encrypted data without you knowing.
by tinus_hn 4y ago
The government can’t bully you into decrypting your own data or releasing your encrypted data without you knowing.
- robjan 4y agoIf Firefox is backdoored, as per GP's hypothetical situation, your data can be sent to a sync server other than the one you configured. The only realistic way to stop it would be to only use a specific audited version of FF. If that's the case then there's no need to use your own sync server because you already know it's not backdoored.
- robin_reala 4y agoWhich government? Because there absolutely are governments that can, UK for example.
- tinus_hn 4y agoThe UK government can bully you into telling them things without you knowing you told them those things? That sounds interesting, how does that work?
- robin_reala 4y agoOops, misread the “without you knowing” bit.
- mrmanner 4y agoThey can bully the open sourcerer into adding a backdoor to the code, then use that backdoor without you noticing.
- tinus_hn 4y agoThere can be no guarantee you’d not notice, but more importantly if you go down that path you can’t trust anything and that is a silly reason to not build defense in depth and not entrust your secrets to the cloud.