Wow. It’s almost like we’ve been warning for years that putting backdoors into software, systems, and encryption would allow nefarious parties to exploit them.
Think about the children <clutches pearls>. It will make it easier for police to access instead of <checks notes> doing actual police work and getting a warrant.
Well yeah but then they’d have to expand the hiring pool beyond the dumbest jock you knew in high school and those people tend to balk at doing fascism so…
What?? But the FBI called dibs on that backdoor! /s
It’s almost like putting backdoors into software as a whole is a bad idea cause anyone who knows of it can use it, not just “tHe GoOd GuYs”
cause anyone who knows of it can use it
…and the ones who don’t know of it will one day become the ones who know
ChinaUSA hacked Verizon, AT&T and Lumen then left the door open for anybody elseAnd this is why the NSA is supposed to close exploits rather than harvest them for surveillance.
This is why surveillance backdoors are always bad, and you can’t math around that.
Can’t weasel around math you mean? They don’t think they can, it’s collateral damage.
If the door exists, then it can be opened
US did not need to hack, they just said they need the key… How did china get these keys?
Are our glowies selling state secrets now?
Omg the back doors work for anyone who can gain access to them??? Shocked-pikachu.jpg
This article is getting saved, for the next time some idiot proposes ‘lawful backdoors’, which will inevitably happen.
Nervously glances at TPM and TSA approved locks.
I still love the fact that those TSA keys are all available online as 3D files and likely as metal as well
Those locks are kinda optional. And luggage is way less important than all of one’s communication ; imho.
Oh absolutely, but it does do something that I’m not sure people realize: it normalizes the idea of a government agent holding the keys to all of your stuff.
Can’t buy Huawei Networking gear, if we get hacked it has the be through our own backdoor.
I remember them trying to get Apple to put in a back door as well
Only Apple can use that data for profit! Now the Alphabet agencies just buy that data from brokers… I just realized how funny the parent company to Google name change is.
Article author struggles with clean links
https://www.wsj.com/tech/cybersecurity/u-s-wiretap-systems-targeted-in-china-linked-hack btw
The pioneers of this dirty business were overwhelmingly founded by ex-Israeli signals intelligence personnel,
That’s interesting. Must be a coincidence.
and related Clinton-era initiatives, like the failed Clipper Chip program, which would have put a spy chip in every computer, and, eventually, every phone and gadget:
“Don’t worry, guys we tried to backdoor all devices but failed, see?”
Meanwhile, Intel ME, AMD “Secure Processor”, and ARM “TrustZone”:
That’s interesting. Must be a coincidence.
Kinda coincides in time with Israel becoming less of a normal West-aligned state and more of a spoiled child whom everyone pats, not very well-behaving at that.
Though TBH this was the case under Reagan too. It’s just that there’s difference between support for Israel and Israel’s penetration back.
That link is a 404 for me.
Dawg
Edit: y’all no fun
