There’s been an increasing call in recent weeks and months for encryption to have government ‘backdoors’ put into them. This is a bad idea. No really, it’s an incredibly bad idea. Even if we took t…

There’s been an increasing call in recent weeks and months for encryption to have government ‘backdoors’ put into them. This is a bad idea. No really, it’s an incredibly bad idea. Even if we took the assumption that it is a push that’s made with only the purest of intentions, and the government universal key is kept 100% safe and secure and never leaked or misused, it’s still a really, unbelievably, stupid idea.

  • lemonflavoured@kbin.social
    5·
    1 year ago

    Backdoor in communication would also apply to them, meaning that their communication can also be hacked.

    I doubt it, actually. There’s nothing to stop a government legislating to ban consumer use of E2E encryption while still allowing it for banks or government communications, say.

    • clb92@kbin.social
      6·
      1 year ago

      Well, most government employees are also regular people once they’re not at work, and they would be using the backdoored encryption for their personal communication. With the backdoored encryption it would be even easier than before to compromise a couple of them and leverage their access to get into the government systems. That’s already a very widely used technique.