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I'm not sure what connection you're seeing here. How does a set of reporting requirements resemble the attempt to encourage telecom businesses to add a backdoor
by mpalmer 3y ago
I'm not sure what connection you're seeing here. How does a set of reporting requirements resemble the attempt to encourage telecom businesses to add a backdoor in communications infrastructure?
- wslh 3y agoI mentioned explicitly the word allegory. First, the term backdoor applies loosely to the Clipper chip since it would have been public that this chip could be used for accessing private information. I think lock is a better security term. Backdoors generally are secret. My memories from that time are that the term backdoor was also an irony. Second, the link is about informing private information because there is a security concern. It is not because the government want to have stats to inform the public about how to run AI nodes.
- mpalmer 3y agoNo, I think backdoor is the appropriate term, not least of all because the first sentence of the Wikipedia entry you linked identifies the Clipper chip as such. As long as we're nitpicking word choice, the word allegory does not apply here. An allegory is an intentional narrative device employed by an author or artist. Two things you find to be similar does not constitute an allegory. The link you identify is pretty tenuous. With the Clipper chip, the government wanted access to live communications, not information about the infrastructure the communications were passing through. That is not the case with the recent EO.
- wslh 3y agoSorry, if I can say it differently it reminds me of the Clipper chip because of the security concerns for the use of technology in a specific way. AI now, crypto before. Please take it as a personal connection then.