Are the Feds actually this smooth-brained? I mean, I know they have to maintain the appearance of control, so his words make sense from that perspective. But surely they have to be aware, the very backdoors they originally forced down our throats are EXACTLY WHAT’S CAUSING THIS PROBLEM NOW. These geniuses who purportedly protect American citizens, are either woefully inept, lacking basic understanding of how data security actually works, or LYING with malice. Which do you think it is?
They’re not smooth brained at all. They know exactly what they are saying, but them gaining full control always takes priority over all other factors. Just because a foreign adversary did it to us, which they don’t like, doesn’t mean that they don’t still want to do it to us.
I don’t care, it’s not relevant what they think.
the end result is literally the same
FBI Assistant Director Bryan Vorndran said, “The FBI has been really, really consistent about our stance on lawful access encryption. We’re actually big, big supporters of it, but it has to be reasonably responsibly managed so that we can get what we need on the other side.”
So they want to keep the backdoors but have the Chinese government stop naughtily using them when they’re only for American use. Good plan! A quick call to Xi Jinping should sort the whole thing out.
I’m no encryption expert, but wouldn’t a backdoor of any kind be inevitably exploited by a malicious actor?
Yes, but politicians and police keep fantasizing about a magical crypto-backdoor that only they can use, no matter how many times people explain this to them or how many times they get burned.
Frankly a person with such persistence trying to get a tool they never justly need should get punched in the face until they get smarter.
I mean, there already are laws about what should be surrendered to them in legal proceedings and how. That’s not impeded by any encryption. That everybody has right to remain silent is already a rule, encryption just reaffirms it with math.
What they are trying to create is a tool for illegally violating people without being detected, thus not causing outrage and not having to justify it.
It’s literally an unprecedented penetration of government structures and agencies and political groups by criminals who want to use those organizations to spy after others. By thieves. They should all be found and put in jail.
u/floofloof is speaking sarcastically above, I believe.
Just say the words backdoor you fucking douchebag. What bullshit soft peddling political speech.
Their wet dream is to promote encryption toward widespread adoption and then force the major industrial players to give them back doors whilst giving people a false sense of security.
Correct. When people don’t have said false sense of security, they don’t talk about important things.
Which is why things common in the olden days, like reading one’s mail and wire tapping, wouldn’t give results as good as bugging apartments or, even better, hotel rooms, restaurant tables.
I agree with you about their wet dreams, but I think it’ll even out in the end to the same situation as before. Targeted attacks - as efficient as it gets. Attacks on everyone - hardly useful, because false sense of security is not something to last long, just like exclusive knowledge of a backdoor.
The fact that existing backdoors have been completely taken over by Salt Typhoon hackers means fuck all to them, I guess.
Elsewhere the FBI suggests using encrypted texts because of Salt Typhoon. Talking out of both sides of their mouth.
Shows where the real priorities lie. Our governments view their own citizens as the enemy.
Our governments view their own citizens as the enemy.
Their citizens generally don’t consider them better people or some kind of aristocracy, with right to power over the rest. That is in conflict with what they themselves think. Some people I’ve met included.
When you treat people as your enemy, they may become your enemy. Self fulfilling prophecy.
The FBI can go fuck a duck. Use encryption or else. You are a fool.
Poor duck.
This is a basic security measure, it is mind-blowing that they are taking this stance.
This has been their stance since basically forever.
It makes things easier for them and they don’t pay the costs of security breaches, the people do.
Me watching Kash Patel and Donald Trump drive the FBI into the ditch:
With the FBI being gone, the republican controlled Congress now passes a law to grant law enforcement powers to the Pinkerton National Detective Agency.
🙃
I’m looking forward to our inevitable return to roman style firefighting. Can’t wait to haggle with them as the fire they started in my house grows
Fascists need enforcement, if they actually kill it, something much worse will replace it
Fascists are a movement from 1920s Italy. You’ll see things clearer if you don’t try to classify them by tired labels.
That said, even if you are wrong here, there’ll be a lot of “worse”, I think.
