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This whole debate is a red herring. The NSA already has backdoors[1][2] in your Desktop OS (Windows, OSX), in your mobile OS (Android, iOS), in your smartphone
by moe 12y ago
This whole debate is a red herring.
The NSA already has backdoors[1][2] in your Desktop OS (Windows, OSX), in your mobile OS (Android, iOS), in your smartphone hardware (Qualcomm Baseband), in your ISPs network hardware (Cisco, Juniper), in your server hardware (Dell), in your network hardware (most router firmwares), and there's rumors they have backdoors in Intel and AMD CPUs, too.
Why would they be concerned about encryption that runs on top of hard- and software that they can control at will?
[1] https://gigaom.com/2013/12/29/nsas-backdoor-catalog-exposed-targets-include-juniper-cisco-samsung-and-huawei/ https://gigaom.com/2013/12/29/nsas-backdoor-catalog-exposed-...
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSA_ANT_catalog http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSA_ANT_catalog
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A
- tptacek 12y agoIt would certainly be the most expensive and hamfisted possible way for NSA to get access to a target computer system. The more you know about how encryption software is actually built and deployed in large-scale applications, the sillier this "split key escrow" trial balloon sounds. It is facially ridiculous and will never happen. Good for pageviews, though!
- bendoernberg 12y agoWhat makes it expensive and hamfisted?
- carrotleads 12y agoI would assume they work off the logic, you can always have more weapons... The softer weapons can be handed to low level personnel...