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Salt Typhoon Shows There's No Security Backdoor That's Only for the "Good Guys"

by Sami_Lehtinen on 10/17/24, 7:03 PM with 8 comments

• by salesynerd on 10/18/24, 2:02 AM

  The EFF raises valid concerns regarding the abuse of security backdoors. As far as I remember, they and other privacy advocate have been doing so for the longest period of time.

  Unfortunately, the real world will always fall short of the ideal one. Telegram and Durov are already facing this issue - where privacy ends and law enforcement begins.

• by jeisc on 10/18/24, 8:58 AM

  a back door should be the front door where the one who needs the information goes to the office of the information holder and accesses the information inside the provider's space with the proper court warrants.

• by unethical_ban on 10/18/24, 3:35 AM

  Isn't this premature? Regardless of philosophy on government surveillance, there is no indication this was a "backdoor" or some mathematical weakness put in place by government.

  A system designed to allow access to data is not by definition a backdoor.

• by dc396 on 10/19/24, 4:24 PM

  And in other news, water is wet.

  Someone forgot to tell the bad guys to set the appropriate RFC 3514 bit.