The best part of the “going dark” debate is that we have to pretend sophisticated attacks by nation-states and criminals are some kind of Gibsonian sci-fi fantasy. It’s 2019. Theres a multi-billion dollar industry around attacking phone security systems.https://www.fastcompany.com/90307864/u-s-fund-sells-israeli-hacking-firm-nso-group-amid-spy-mystery …
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It would be great if multiple options for such escrow are investigated eg. add multi-party, add physical access, add delay/proof of work, make options to scale bad, etc. Problem is, its political sensitive, academicly inpopular, no one wants to get burned by naming the options.
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Yeah, I don't want key escrow, but it does bother me that some vocal opponents appear to be encouraging an increase in state 0day usage as an alternative.
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Which legal systems? It’s entirely unrealistic to believe it would just be USG (just as it is any would promise and live up to promises not use zero days).
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It's not just USG, but they sure are a big player. It would meaningfully move the market for sure. They could promise not to build a key escrow system and do it anyway, so that argument works both ways I think.
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given a lawful key escrow system, the USG might use it frequently to prove how great an idea it was to give access to encrypted communications to the government; but continue to use 0days when they can't get a warrant or on the criminals that are invulnerable to the escrow
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Of course, and without a lawful key escrow system they'll just do what they do now, plow millions into 0day. The purpose of the experiment is to imagine how it will change things if they committed to not doing that, I think that's interesting

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