Re:The Belgian government has removed ‘backdoor requirement’...
by charcircuit on Tuesday December 21, 2021 @08:34PM
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>Anyone can easily get copies of the encrypted versions of communication done over the internet with minimal effort, this means someone can hold on to encrypted information in massive dumps
How, if you aren't the person I'm chatting with, then you will never see my encrypted messages. How would anyone magically get all of the messages?
>Imagine an extreme vegan political group making eating meat a crime punishable by death even if in the past. Your chat logs about going for burgers are easily accessible. Or similarly a retroactive law against abortion.
Ignoring how common law does not allow for retroactive laws, you are arguing for people to be able to hide the evidence of the crimes they have committed. I imagine how you can see how governments would not be a fan of this. You are just being an example of a person who has something to hide. Killing your citizens on such a large scale is really not in your interest as a government and would not go over well in the global community.
>This is no longer the case for encryption with a backdoor.
I never said to add a backdoor. I said that the cryptosystem should be designed such that law enforcement with a valid warrant will also be able to decrypt the message.
Having a cryptosystem where only the participants or someone with a warrant can read messages is still an upgrade over unencrypted messages where a MITM can store, read, and modify your guys' messages.
How, if you aren't the person I'm chatting with, then you will never see my encrypted messages. How would anyone magically get all of the messages?
>Imagine an extreme vegan political group making eating meat a crime punishable by death even if in the past. Your chat logs about going for burgers are easily accessible. Or similarly a retroactive law against abortion.
Ignoring how common law does not allow for retroactive laws, you are arguing for people to be able to hide the evidence of the crimes they have committed. I imagine how you can see how governments would not be a fan of this. You are just being an example of a person who has something to hide. Killing your citizens on such a large scale is really not in your interest as a government and would not go over well in the global community.
>This is no longer the case for encryption with a backdoor.
I never said to add a backdoor. I said that the cryptosystem should be designed such that law enforcement with a valid warrant will also be able to decrypt the message.
Having a cryptosystem where only the participants or someone with a warrant can read messages is still an upgrade over unencrypted messages where a MITM can store, read, and modify your guys' messages.