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Why does this concern apply to the French intelligence agency but not, say, the code signing certificate for Whatsapp?
by immibis 2y ago
Why 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.