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It baffles the mind how little the government seems to understand technology. Yes let's create a universal key but to make sure it's not abused or falls into th
by BinaryIdiot 12y ago
It baffles the mind how little the government seems to understand technology. Yes let's create a universal key but to make sure it's not abused or falls into the wrong hands we'll just split it up over agencies or setup an escrow. Never mind the fact that this undermines the security of every single piece of American data if we're compelled to use it.
If you're up to not good you're just going to download a non-backdoored encryption toolkit from somewhere else.
- kbart 12y ago"If you're up to not good you're just going to download a non-backdoored encryption toolkit from somewhere else." Good point. Software is made all around the world and there's no way for USA government to force it's backdoors (call it "golden key" or whatever) into all of it, especially in the age of open source. The purpose of wiretaping consumer grade software is clearly monitoring and controlling of casual citizens, not fighting serious criminals, hackers or enemy cyberarmies.
- pdkl95 12y agoIt is always a mistake to assume the opponent is ignorant or stupid. Of course the government knows the futility of trying to enforce the use of only "approved" encryption. A law that required the use of "approved" encryption necessarily bans real encryption tools. Anybody that is actually secure is made a criminal, which is one more law that can be enforced arbitrary if someone decides you are a problem. It should be fairly easy to filter for non-approved encryption with DPI. This gives them a nice map of all the "subversives" that are trying to evade the "monitoring and controlling of casual citizens".