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That's a matter of facts rather than values. The "impossible promise" is that a private company can keep a kilobyte of data out of the hands of every spy agency
by whatshisface 2y ago
That's a matter of facts rather than values. The "impossible promise" is that a private company can keep a kilobyte of data out of the hands of every spy agency on Earth for any length of time.
- immibis 2y agoWhy does this concern apply to the French intelligence agency but not, say, the code signing certificate for Whatsapp?
- whatshisface 2y agoOn one level it does apply to certificates. On another level, pushing a compromised update to every phone in Europe (to gain access equivalent to having a copy of the backdoor) would be noticed by the publisher, and the binary difference would quickly be found by security researchers.