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> Many people here would call a service run for the FBI without oversight or a lengthy and transparent approval process with the requirement for a warrant a bac

> Many people here would call a service run for the FBI without oversight or a lengthy and transparent approval process with the requirement for a warrant a backdoor Er, what? No one would call it a front or back door. If someone gets root access to my machine and uses that to get access to data on my machine, that data was not the entry point. The phrase "without oversight or a lengthy and transparent approval process with the requirement for a warrant" shows what a red herring this is.

themeekforgotpw 11y ago
Right, but if there is a system to access your machine without your usual creds and that system gets hacked, that's backdoor access. You can say - the system for US intelligence is like 'another account' or a 'second root' and is known to Google and so it is not a backdoor - but is that really within the spirit of the discussion? If you didn't understand that this was a separate system with separate access data, specifically for law enforcement requests, then that should clear it up. If not we can go over semantics a ton but I don't like those games (everyone loses [time]).