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China hacked Verizon, AT&T and Lumen using the FBI’s backdoor
(pluralistic.net)
A community for Lemmy users interested in privacy
Rules:
Eh?
You can’t build an unpickable back door into a computer system.
You can’t break encryption for only the good guys.
The path to hell is paved with good intentions.
Encryption only works when there is one decryption key. If there are two different keys then it isn’t encrypted bad actors will find a way in
That is 100% correct. Nonetheless, the US agencies assumed that they were smarter than basically all of the security community and common sense.
except the intentions werent any good either.
whenever you encrypt something, encrypt with both the intended public key and the fbi's public key. and send the one encrypted with the fbi's key to the fbi.