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It can potentially be a theatrical farce, but you've only created hypothetical scenarios in your mind for why that might be the case. Even if you did "own both
by gochi 3y ago
It can potentially be a theatrical farce, but you've only created hypothetical scenarios in your mind for why that might be the case. Even if you did "own both ends", you still have to rely on other parties to contribute the pieces that you don't watch over, unless you're going to be E2EE from scratch (again, because you can hypothetically just say "well what if the encryption scheme itself is backdoored").
- smoldesu 3y agoBoth of those conceits apply to Apple's scheme as well, though. Transparency enforces accountability, Apple themselves wouldn't be using things like OpenSSL and bash if they weren't open enough to scrutinize and modify.