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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To be fair building in backdoors also puts people at risk.
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Sure. I don't like key escrow, but arguing for more 0day hoarding as a substitute seems like arguing to protect the ideological purity of cryptography rather than less risk.
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The argument should absolutely be that what they want to achieve is not justifiable. Law enforcement does not need a window into everybody's private thoughts and intimate conversations. Thru all history they never had it. "Going dark" is A+ propaganda because it implies they did.
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This is the fundamental point we need to stop dismissing as "feely" and stop pretending the issue is something that can be decided by math and technology.
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