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seibelj | karma 13458 | avg karma 3.55 · 2020-12-09 02:26:24+00:00

If FireEye, ostensibly full of competent people, can be hacked, what hope does the government have for protecting access to legally mandated backdoors in encryption? The silver lining of these events is it shows how ridiculous mandating backdoors would be. It’s begging other nations to attack us.

athms | karma 364 | avg karma 1.22 · 2020-12-09 02:54:43+00:00

>...what hope does the government have for protecting access to legally mandated backdoors in encryption?

None. Both the CIA and NSA have been hacked too. The only entity that should hold private keys should be the person or organization using those keys.

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A4ET8a8uTh0 | karma 5530 | avg karma 1.66 · 2020-12-09 02:55:08+00:00

I genuinely hope your point is not lost on the decision makers. The steady push towards the 'ease' of accessing w/e you want as long as it is by 'good guys' ignores this argument and quickly pivots to cp, aml, and terrorism ( basically whatever currently works ). It is genuinely maddening.