FBI demands backdoors "This encryption should be designed to protect people’s privacy and also managed so U.S. tech companies can provide readable content in response to a lawful court order."
Didn’t they just recently (like, yesterday?) suggest we all use encrypted calling apps due to the Chinese hacks on US telecoms that took advantage of these back doors?
FBI is not a monolith right now and has multiple conflicting opinions.
The part that wants to save democracy says you should encrypt your communications by using an e2e provider, and they recommend Signal.
The part that wants to serve the country (by serving the current administration — the J. Edgar Hoover part of FBI) is terrified of going dark and has been nagging encryption experts for over a decade now to nerd harder and invent a backdoor only good guys can use.
The nerds know this is mathematically impossible. And in fact bad guys (industrial spies, black hats, other nations, etc.) have leaks readily available to uncover the backdoors.
And right now a lot of FBI is scared the new admin is the bad guys.
This is the new DOJ dodge. In the past, whenever the government tried to specify ‘secure’ backdoored encryption solutions, researchers found security holes – for example, rather famously the Clipper Chip was broken quickly and thoroughly.
there's the problem with religion: you allow random fantasies to permeate everyday life and it'll inevitably spill over.
case in point: the fantasy that there's a good-guy backdoor, unaccessible to bad guys.
so, demand away, preferably at the same place you entertain all other fantasies, like theaters, cinemas, tax-exempt criminal conspiracies churches, strip clubs, and the like.
Edit to add: Maybe this highlights reel gets into it? I haven’t watched it: https://www.forbes.com/sites/premium-video/2024/11/27/2024-forbes-cio-summit-premium-highlights/