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Re:Five Eyes and Japan call for Facebook backdoor to monitor... by ios14 on Sunday October 11, 2020 @12:58AM (#24743835)
Offering lawful access to widely deployed encryption is hardly an extreme view. Our IC and their partners, as well as our bureaucrats, are mostly in agreement.

An extreme view might entail banning certain forms of math on the internet entirely, rather than simply regulating the widely deployed frictionless math.

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Re:Five Eyes and Japan call for Facebook backdoor to monitor... by morpheuskafka on Sunday October 11, 2020 @02:06AM (#24744062)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_number
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Re:Five Eyes and Japan call for Facebook backdoor to monitor... by metadatabad on Sunday October 11, 2020 @05:11AM (#24744614)
Encryption cannot and will not ever be stopped due to it being math.

Oh, and make sure to use steganography when appropriate.

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Re:Five Eyes and Japan call for Facebook backdoor to monitor... by bccdee on Sunday October 11, 2020 @01:12AM (#24743872)
Legally mandating government wiretaps in every major method of online communication, subjecting every citizen to having their private life potentially scrutinized with no trial, is fairly extreme, yes.
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Re:Five Eyes and Japan call for Facebook backdoor to monitor... by ios14 on Sunday October 11, 2020 @12:55PM (#24747177)
If I understand right, in this example FB would hold the keys to recover the cleartext and turn it over to law enforcement only when compelled to do so with a warrant.

This isn’t extreme at all.

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