• According to Whittaker, the bill requires the encrypted messaging app Signal to install so-called backdoors in the software.
  • HSR🏴‍☠️@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    18 hours ago

    There needs to be a messaging app which provides a backdoor for every government that requests it. Every time some dumbass legislator asks for a super-giga-secure-backdoor they promise not to misuse, they should be directed to that app.

    • Tarogar@feddit.org
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      35 minutes ago

      That sounds like unencrypted communication with extra steps. Why not skip all of that and just give them an unencrypted service anyone can read and use. While we are at it, getting rid of those pesky passwords and unwieldy usernames is also a great idea. What could go wrong… I mean CLEARLY no one has anything to hide…

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      16 hours ago

      Imagine the complexity of the encryption algo with 100 different custom made backdoors!

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        15 hours ago

        You just encrypt it with every key. It’s wasteful, but not all that complicated.

        At that point, you just don’t encrypt things at all.