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So they want to keep the backdoors but have the Chinese government stop naughtily using them when they're only for American use. Good plan! A quick call to Xi Jinping should sort the whole thing out.
I'm no encryption expert, but wouldn't a backdoor of any kind be inevitably exploited by a malicious actor?
On the first day it was released to the public.
The encryption specialists at universities knew about the eliptic curve backdoor before it was implemented, and kept recommending that it not be.
Remember that if the police can read your stuff, so can foreign interests, industrial spies, organized crime and militants of large scale political movements.
Besides which here in the States, law enforcement is notorious for abusing their access to technology to bypass protections of the fourth amendment to the Constitution of the United States, often relying on getting a warrant post hoc or lying to establish probable cause.
And usually the judges don't mind.
Can you cite me some specific examples? I would love to do aome further reading
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction
Here's a whole ass Wikipedia article on the very subject, because it's been so widespread for so long it has a fucking name.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemisphere_Project
Here's a Wikipedia article on the mass surveillance by the DEA, which is where the data used for parallel construction was sourced.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-dea-sod-idUSBRE97409R20130805/
Here's a good example from the first Wikipedia article about how the Feds pass signals intelligence to local law enforcement so they can start cases and claim they found the initial evidence some other way than illegal mass surveillance.
For more history about attempts to install backdoors, see:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper_chip
That's a wicked response. Thanks big!!