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If it's not client-side encryption (where only you know the password and the stuff is encrypted on your machine before it is sent), then it's a non-starter. The
by pppp 13y ago
If it's not client-side encryption (where only you know the password and the stuff is encrypted on your machine before it is sent), then it's a non-starter. The government can just order Google to bypass the protections for their suspect.
- foobarqux 13y agoIf they control the code they can bypass the protections for their suspect as well.
- ef4 13y agoAnd even if it's client-side encrypted, unless the client is open source there's no practical way to know whether there are backdoors, or whether a future update adds backdoors.
- declan 13y agoI understand that's your legal theory. The article says, however, that remains an "unanswered legal question" in the United States, according to Jennifer Granick at Stanford's CIS.