Reply to post: Re: Stalin would be so proud of him

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

JassMan

Re: Stalin would be so proud of him

Every one of those backdoors is useless if the PC isn't connected to the Internet. There is not, and cannot be anything to prevent the crims creating and encrypting a message on an airgapped PC (with or without ineffective backdoors), then communicating that message via the leakiest app ever made. Ingenuity is the mother of invention and the airgapped PC can be as simple as a commodore 64 - it only has to run 1 program and be able to save the data to a common storage format. Don't forget that the original BBC model A computer had a whole 32KiB RAM and yet people were able to produced formatted documents, drawings and even databases. Yes that is KiB not MiB or GiB.

Never forget that politicians are mainly people who have never actually worked at a real-life job and forget that creating a law which forces backdoors in comms software (on even the bios/uefi) can never work on a device which has its bootloader set with 16 switches on a frontpanel. Even if they define a computer as a device with a CPU, enthusiasts have created computing devices out of 74 series (what you might call a distributed processing unit). All they can ever manage is to create a market in archaic devices. Every device which is created until the law comes into force will eventually be defined as archaic.

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