Reply to post: Re: Why do you need backdoors

Backdoors won't weaken your encryption, wails FBI boss. And he's right. They won't – they'll fscking torpedo it

John Brown (no body) Silver badge

Re: Why do you need backdoors

"crack any system that is physically in their possession."

I fully agree with you, but it's not just the physical device contents they are wanting. They also want the encrypted stuff that travels around the networks and is read on the device then wiped, or possibly never stored at all on the source or destination device.

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