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For years, law enforcement pushed for encryption backdoors, arguing they were necessary to combat crime and terrorism. In the US, after Salt Typhoon compromise
by Kim_Bruning 2y ago
For years, law enforcement pushed for encryption backdoors, arguing they were necessary to combat crime and terrorism.
In the US, after Salt Typhoon compromised telecom networks—including court-authorized wiretap systems—the FBI has now (somewhat reluctantly, I think) started advising government officials to use end-to-end encrypted apps like Signal and WhatsApp to protect themselves. [1]
I think the UK government is running a bit behind wrt Encryption.
[1] https://www.npr.org/2024/12/17/nx-s1-5223490/text-messaging-security-fbi-chinese-hackers-security-encryption https://www.npr.org/2024/12/17/nx-s1-5223490/text-messaging-...
- pmlnr 2y agoNo, the government is always exempt. Citizens shouldn't be allowed e2e, the government, that's ok.
- selendym 2y agoThe problem with this line of thinking is that the government is, of course, composed of... individual citizens.
- pmlnr 2y agoI don't want them to be, they make themselves exempt. It's bad. It's one of the causes that triggered the French Rebellion in 1793: one rule for them, one for us?
- Kim_Bruning 2y agoThey do seem to think that way sometimes, don't they? But the counter-argument here is: if the civilian E2E apps had also/already been backdoored, they'd be entirely out of options now.