This isn't a backdoor, the bureau says.
"It isn't a backdoor because we aren't calling it one. We named the backdoor Lawful Access, so it's that, not a backdoor."
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It's not a back door, it's just a rear entryway
Same difference between "quotas" and "performance goals".
It’s not a back door, it’s a side door!
The FBI can go fuck themselves.
People need to start calling this what it is. Backdoor-ing encryption is backdoor-ing national security. It should be considered nothing less than treason to democracy...
But we don't live in democracies. We live in corporate dictatorships masquerading as democracy, so these efforts to destroy our civil liberties make perfect sense.
how about no
This is a battle big tech cannot afford to lose.
I don't like this framing. This is about privacy for all of us, and some of the most important providers of encryption software and encrypted services are nonprofits and small companies.
Yeah, it’s a non sequitur given that those firms have always been constituent parts of the US military-spook-industrial complex.. They DGAF about our actual privacy, though they may prefer that we believe that they care.
Fuck right off, my data is my own, pay me for it and then maybe we'll talk.
The exactly.
You want something from me, fine. But nothing is free and you may not like my price, and in that case you're simply out of luck.
I guess it was wishful thinking that the FBI just learnt their lesson regarding encryption with the Chinese phone line hack. Bastards
Looks like I'll be happily sticking with grapheneOS until Linux phones get VOLTE working
Good luck with your Graphene OS when they mandate a Clipper Chip into the hardware.
Well that gives the Foss community 6 years to figure out VOLTE
iOS & Android should not hide admin/root access from users (device owners). The same was as desktop systems (Windows/macOS/Linux) never hide it. This will allow users to use their own encryption (LUKS,dm-crypt, AES, VeraCrypt and so on) to store application data.
As someone who know pgp exists, i say have at it feds, lets see what kind of explots clippy2.0 has and how quickly it gets cracked.
Seriously ever actual expert in cryptography would tell then what they want is not possible. It would be exploited within weeks, probably by multiple different actors. Let them fuck around and find out, they obviously dont "learn" from it, but at least it will shut them down for another decade or so.
A great example of this is TSA luggage locks. Mandated backdoor, master keys leaked by company that makes them, now anyone can open any TSA approved lock.
I’m not a fan but TSA just cut the locks off previously. Then you’re out the cost of a lock and your bag is open to anybody even without a key. I still use a TSA approved lock but it also has a little indicator on it that turns red if it’s been opened with the TSA key. So at least I know.
Most luggage isn’t even remotely secure anyway unless you travel with hard cases with latches. The zippers on most bags you can separate with a ball point pen in seconds. Then just grab the zipper and pull it to the other side and it’s sealed again.
Kash Patel wants to start arresting dissidents who will be rioting in 2028
don't they already have it?
Maybe, but they wouldn't want to give away that such a thing definitely already exists. Also, any intelligence gathered that way would likely be inadmissible as evidence if it was used to prosecute someone.
By getting an overt backdoor installed, both those problems go away.
Most.
Depends on how good the e2e application is written. But yea, since android is still in the middle of data transfer, as well as IO of storage. Meaning both iOS and android can be the man the in the middle software that is tapping off the data even before it's getting encrypted.
Hopefully nobody is reading this from apple or Google, before I give them ideas. 😔
Don't worry, Google and Apple already know this....but so far we can only hope they will never agree to do something like that.
And if they do, nobody will know about it anyways.
And you also don't know if they are doing this already. So who knows it might be happening already.
Want in one hand and shit in the other and see which one fills up first.
Is this just in case anyone was wondering or forgot because yeaaaahdoiii.
Somebody else will provide the tools to workaround this in no time. Keep wasting our fucking time and money by not understanding technology, world government figures.
aaand those and the usere will be punished when found