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You'd think we would learn our lessons about sabotaging our infrastructure and software to enable easy LE wiretap access after the Olympics spying scandal in At

You'd think we would learn our lessons about sabotaging our infrastructure and software to enable easy LE wiretap access after the Olympics spying scandal in Athens when somebody discovered this back door and used it to spy on the Prime Minister plus a hundred other dignitaries such as the US Ambassador. Wonder how this panel's decision will affect projects such as Textsecure and Redphone which were sadly sold to Twitter, and therefore under US jurisdiction to force backdoors into. Same goes for Phil Zimmerman's new service.

rdtsc 14y ago
> Wonder how this panel's decision will affect projects such as Textsecure and Redphone I say it is only a matter of time. The wheels are already turning in that direction. Just need a few terrorism/child porn high profile cases where someone on behalf of FBI will testify how they had to let the evil perpetrator go because encryption made it impossible to wiretap them -- and bam legislation will be out in no time. Remember many countries make cryptography illegal and even in US exporting string cryptographic software was the same legally as exporting the designs for bombs and rockets. And ban and/or arm twisting fines are just around the corner I suspect.