• @chronicledmonocle
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    3333 months 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
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      1413 months ago

      Think about the children <clutches pearls>. It will make it easier for police to access instead of <checks notes> doing actual police work and getting a warrant.

      • @[email protected]
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        553 months 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…

        • DominusOfMegadeus
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          313 months ago

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

      • @Lennny
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        133 months ago

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

    • @BMTea
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      263 months ago

      The FBI is the nefarious party lol

      • @DogWater
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        13 months ago

        Waco intensifies

  • @[email protected]
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    China USA hacked Verizon, AT&T and Lumen then left the door open for anybody else

    • Uriel238 [all pronouns]
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      483 months 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.

      • @rottingleaf
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        42 months ago

        Can’t weasel around math you mean? They don’t think they can, it’s collateral damage.

    • sunzu2
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      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?

  • Th4tGuyII
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    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”

    • lad
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      42 months 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
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    733 months ago

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

  • @[email protected]
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    693 months ago

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

    • @Bytemeister
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      343 months ago

      Nervously glances at TPM and TSA approved locks.

      • Gormadt
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        263 months ago

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

        • adr1an
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          23 months ago

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

          • Gormadt
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            83 months 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
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            22 months 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
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          22 months 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.

    • @horse_battery_staple
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      213 months 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.

    • sunzu2
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      33 months ago

      That was a psyop my man

      Got normies super comfortable ;)

  • @[email protected]
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    393 months ago

    Article author struggles with clean links

    https://www.wsj.com/tech/cybersecurity/u-s-wiretap-systems-targeted-in-china-linked-hack btw

    The pioneers of this dirty business were overwhelmingly founded by ex-Israeli signals intelligence personnel,

    That’s interesting. Must be a coincidence.

    and related Clinton-era initiatives, like the failed Clipper Chip program, which would have put a spy chip in every computer, and, eventually, every phone and gadget:

    “Don’t worry, guys we tried to backdoor all devices but failed, see?”

    Meanwhile, Intel ME, AMD “Secure Processor”, and ARM “TrustZone”:

  • @aluminium
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    223 months ago

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

  • @Korkki
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    13 months ago

    nice, that’ll tech them.