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Re:Obama Encryption Policy Rejects Laws Mandating Backdoors by Zombieball on Friday October 09, 2015 @04:23PM (#10363040)
Perhaps I am not versed well enough in the subject, but I have a hard time envisioning any kind of system that allows government officials to get around the encryption and peer into the contents but not hackers.

There will always be some sort of secret only the government has access to, and once that secret is leaked it's game over.

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Re:Obama Encryption Policy Rejects Laws Mandating Backdoors by quaunaut on Friday October 09, 2015 @11:12PM (#10364336)
You don't give the government access to their own door. The company simply retains the right to access things- you know, the same way we have it now.

All it's arguing, is to say "You don't have to encrypt literally every part of your system and delete the rest" a la what Snapchat suggests they're doing(though we don't have proof).

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