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Re:DOJ plans to strike against encryption while the Techlash... by lozaning on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @02:22PM (#22426288)
You can safeguard the process the government needs to go through to get approval to decrypt things all you want. That doesn't stop bad actors separate from the government from finding and taking advantages of the vulnerabilities introduced by enabling the government to forcibly decrypt things.

Cant fix technology problems with people processes.

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Re:DOJ plans to strike against encryption while the Techlash... by scarface74 on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @03:52PM (#22427204)
You act as if the government isn’t the “bad actor”.
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Re:DOJ plans to strike against encryption while the Techlash... by lozaning on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @04:40PM (#22427654)
The point Im trying to make is even if we did trust the government and had full faith that they'd never abuse this power, whatever technical mechanism they'd use to 'rightfully' decrypt things would surely be attempted to be misused by people that are explicitly and exclusively bad actors.
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