Privacy vs The Government: Why backdoors are a security nightmare

There are indeed valid arguments for why the government should have access to data necessary to ensure public safety and stop #terrorism. But the question is at what cost does the government obtain this information ?

It's not a matter of whether the government can access data. It's a matter of whether anyone can access it. There's no way to design a system such that only the « good guys » have access. It's a question of security vs insecurity. This is the opinion of most people who deal professionally with #cryptography and communications #security, and the government would do well to finally start taking the advice of these security people. What the government has expressly stated they want is not only access to information held by #technology companies, but also a backdoor into information that technology companies don't have access to.

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