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Re:Tech firms seek to frustrate internet history log law by 7952 on Wednesday November 23, 2016 @09:26AM (#13022825)
Do you think that browser makers could come under attack? Will Chrome and Firefox be required to add back doors to their "service".
Re:Tech firms seek to frustrate internet history log law by gcp on Wednesday November 23, 2016 @10:24AM (#13023213)
Historically browsers for distribution outside the USA were required to be limited to 40-bit crypto.

"(About Netscape) The "International Edition" had its effective key lengths reduced to 512 bits and 40 bits respectively (RSA_EXPORT with 40-bit RC2 or RC4 in SSL 3.0 and TLS 1.0). Acquiring the 'U.S. domestic' version turned out to be sufficient hassle that most computer users, even in the U.S., ended up with the 'International' version, whose weak 40-bit encryption could be broken in a matter of days using a single personal computer." (Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Export_of_cryptography_from_th...)

In fact, strong crypto was only allowed in 2000. Only 16 years ago!

Re:Tech firms seek to frustrate internet history log law by pjc50 on Wednesday November 23, 2016 @10:06AM (#13023101)
I don't think that there's any public actor you can say is definitely not at risk of attack.

Edit: this is probably a good opportunity to remind people to donate to the Open Rights Group, who are the UK counterpart to the EFF and already actively opposing this and other bad laws.

Re:Tech firms seek to frustrate internet history log law by zmmmmm on Wednesday November 23, 2016 @10:12AM (#13023145)
I'm sure they will, but it's too easily answerable - open source browsers without the back doors will be trivial for end users to build. So again, it'll come back to criminalising what end users do, because in the end only restrictions on the end user can stop them using their own resources to build things.