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Encryption backdoors by definition mean everybody who wants it gets hands on your data. You can't make backdoors only the "good guys" can access. And while, su
by Llamamoe 13d ago
Encryption backdoors by definition mean everybody who wants it gets hands on your data. You can't make backdoors only the "good guys" can access.
And while, sure, adtech corpos maybe won't due to the bad PR, what about the Kremlin, criminal organizations, or your insane abusive ex?
- Barbing 13d agoRather tragic that less-technical folks in positions of power can find this: > You can't make backdoors only the "good guys" can access. incomprehensible. I’m sure genuinely so, even.
- Avicebron 13d ago"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." -Upton Sinclair
- phatfish 13d agoWhat can the Kremlin do that is worse than the tech bros? Leverage data to deliver people additive divisive content until it all boils over into the "real world" and splits society? Oh wait...
- bergkvist 13d agoOr deciding where to send a drone attack to take out a political opponent
- StilesCrisis 13d agoPretty sure the Kremlin just murders folks that they have a problem with.
- djtango 13d agoI care a lot less about the KGB knowing the ins and outs of my body than my health insurer...