Reply to post: Re: Am I being thick ?

Nope, the NSA isn't sitting in front of a supercomputer hooked up to a terrorist’s hard drive

JohnFen

Re: Am I being thick ?

"they are asking technology companies to implement sly changes which means no backdoor is needed."

Those "sly changes" are a backdoor. a backdoor doesn't mean the crypto itself is broken, it means there is a way to access the clear data despite encryption. That way can be (and often is) interception of the clear data before legitimate encryption or after legitimate decryption.

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