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[-] chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world 324 points 1 week ago

Wow. It's almost like we've been warning for years that putting backdoors into software, systems, and encryption would allow nefarious parties to exploit them.

[-] gaiussabinus@lemmy.world 139 points 1 week ago

Think about the children . It will make it easier for police to access instead of doing actual police work and getting a warrant.

[-] anarchrist@lemmy.dbzer0.com 52 points 1 week ago

Well yeah but then they'd have to expand the hiring pool beyond the dumbest jock you knew in high school and those people tend to balk at doing fascism so...

[-] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 32 points 1 week ago

Hey, be fair! They also hire the three bullies who hung out by the bleachers smoking cigarettes.

[-] Lennny@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

Sorry, I only think of children during school shootings, it's easier that way.

[-] desktop_user 3 points 1 week ago

you don't want police to think about children, or atleast I don't.

[-] BMTea@lemmy.world 29 points 1 week ago

The FBI is the nefarious party lol

[-] DogWater@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Waco intensifies

[-] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 146 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

~~China~~ USA hacked Verizon, AT&T and Lumen then left the door open for anybody else

[-] almost1337@lemm.ee 67 points 1 week ago

If the door exists, then it can be opened

[-] uriel238 47 points 1 week ago

And this is why the NSA is supposed to close exploits rather than harvest them for surveillance.

This is why surveillance backdoors are always bad, and you can't math around that.

[-] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 2 points 1 week ago

US did not need to hack, they just said they need the key... How did china get these keys?

Are our glowies selling state secrets now?

[-] chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 week ago

Oh hey, I found a random 8 year old video.

Random...

https://youtu.be/VPBH1eW28mo

[-] Th4tGuyII@fedia.io 121 points 1 week ago

What?? But the FBI called dibs on that backdoor! /s

It's almost like putting backdoors into software as a whole is a bad idea cause anyone who knows of it can use it, not just "tHe GoOd GuYs"

[-] sukhmel@programming.dev 4 points 1 week ago

cause anyone who knows of it can use it

…and the ones who don't know of it will one day become the ones who know

[-] NegativeLookBehind@lemmy.world 70 points 1 week ago

Omg the back doors work for anyone who can gain access to them??? Shocked-pikachu.jpg

[-] Quacksalber@sh.itjust.works 66 points 1 week ago

This article is getting saved, for the next time some idiot proposes 'lawful backdoors', which will inevitably happen.

[-] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 32 points 1 week ago

Nervously glances at TPM and TSA approved locks.

[-] Gormadt 25 points 1 week ago

I still love the fact that those TSA keys are all available online as 3D files and likely as metal as well

[-] anzo@programming.dev 2 points 1 week ago

Those locks are kinda optional. And luggage is way less important than all of one's communication ; imho.

[-] Gormadt 8 points 1 week ago

Oh absolutely, but it does do something that I'm not sure people realize: it normalizes the idea of a government agent holding the keys to all of your stuff.

[-] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

The bad part is when people take a luggage lock and use it for their Gym locker, or the locker at the pool. Somewhere that really REALLY shouldn't be using a weak lock with a readily available master key.

[-] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I just went and looked, set of multiple TSA master keys for sale online, numbered with which ones they are the master keys for.

[-] Amius@pawb.social 45 points 1 week ago

I remember them trying to get Apple to put in a back door as well

[-] horse_battery_staple@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago

Only Apple can use that data for profit! Now the Alphabet agencies just buy that data from brokers..... I just realized how funny the parent company to Google name change is.

Dang, you're right! It's like noticing the arrow in fedex

[-] asexualchangeling@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago

I just realized how funny the parent company to Google name change is.

Thank you for this sentence, I thought you were talking about Google, YouTube, etc at first

[-] KonalaKoala@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

At least they were not talking about Lemmy, Mastodon, etc. like someone is trying to screw up the Fediverse.

[-] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 4 points 1 week ago

That was a psyop my man

Got normies super comfortable ;)

[-] aluminium@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago

Can't buy Huawei Networking gear, if we get hacked it has the be through our own backdoor.

[-] Laberpferd@sueden.social 3 points 1 week ago

@db0 works as intended

[-] Korkki@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

nice, that'll tech them.

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