Encryption with a “backdoor” is a broken encryption.
The latest Apple/Mac/iOS Pings can be found by searching Keyword "ApplePingList" on FreeRepublic's Search.
If you want on or off the Mac Ping List, Freepmail me
A backdoor only means that Americans are unprotected from our Gov.
Real terrorists have ways around the problem.
Government access to your data alone is enough reason for me to reject a backdoor. Seems a clear avenue for 4th amendment violations to me. The only way to keep the government from even further violations of the Bill of Rights is to ensure that they cannot physically do it, because the government absolutely does not pay any attention to its constitutional limitations.
Lots of other countries would refuse to do so, and their products would kick are arse in world markets. That’s pretty much the reason.
Instead of calling it a “backdoor”, a term programmers understand but the public may not, let’s just call it by a clearer name: “unlocked doors”.
That’s what we are talking about here. Do we really want the government forcing us to install an “unlocked door” in our SECURITY software? This would be equivalent to the government telling safe manufacturers that they had to add a second door to all their safes that has NO LOCKS on it!
I sometimes doubt if they would always take them out when the program is finished.
“Encryption” has been considered a “weapon” and restricted by law.
Something those advocating for weapon (gun) control to consider.
It needs to be called what it is: encryption for you, cleartext for the government. In other words, a false promise. Seeing how little government agents are held to the law/ethical standards, you can assume that your data is not safe.
For government workers responsible for a data breech, there appears little to motivate them to do better. Their names are rarely exposed to the public and their punishment, if any, appears to be minimal.
They are not arrested, spend no time in jail and no time incarcerated. They receive a hand slap at worst.
Al Gore was pushing for this back in the 90s when he was VP. Remember the Clipper Chip?
Reason # 1.....
The FBI and the other co-opted and corrupted alphabet agencies cannot be trusted to NOT turn on the American people.
After seeing the likes of Eric Holder and Loretta Lynch, do we really want to give these cretins a backdoor to our private data?
Excellent timely post!
Privacy Ping!
Tech bkmk.
Given the politics we have in place, where political affiliation justifies any action, including sending extremely classified through unsecured private servers, servers that are sitting in a closet in a private residence; servers that could be physically stolen, connected to the internet at another location - and the diplomat in question would never know they were missing - that is not a weak link - that is a dysfuncional, traitorous link.
Given that the Justice system, that was designed to be deaf and blind; to dispense justice EQUALLY to everyone, has been co-opted by politics, and will refuse to consider trying anyone with the proper political party affiliation credentials, to even consider a security backdoor on anything is simply foolhardy.
Forget the privacy invasion that the Gov't is eager, and already has history of abusing. Forget the Constitutional laws, that the NSA, CIA, FBI and even local police have broken to the point that the laws are meaningless, we have politicians who are not only corrupt, they are just plain stupid. By stupid, I mean short-sighted, lacking in both moral fiber and intellectual capacity, as well as incapable of critical thinking. They have sacrified intellectual pursuits for the accumulation of power.
Consider, currently the BlackBerry is used by the US Gov't for dissemination of email, texts, meetings and communications. Blackberry believes in backdoors and has them in their phones as we speak. So, it's safe to assume that the "bad guys" are already listening in on the "secure" goverment system.
Then OPM sits in befuddled amazement when all the "secure" data on Federal Employees is released by hackers. I wish I could fix stupid- I would be a very wealthy man.
Having just finished reading “The God’s Eye View” by Barry Eisler I have to say “NO!” to leaving wide open gates so our ever so benevolent bureaucrats can look around whenever they want. Was a good book, fiction maybe. Made me wonder how far they would go.
The God’s Eye View
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/ref=pe_2452760_166699170_pe_ecg/?ASIN=B00XT47SOK
Kind of like gun control: expecting criminals couldn't get guns/encryption illegally and that they would respect gun control / encryption laws while breaking so many others. Anyone can get encryption products. Heck, any sophomore computer science student can research encryption algorithms and create their own.