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Re:France rejects backdoor mandate by tshaddox on Friday March 21, 2025 @07:24PM (#43441783)
> There is a coherent set of values that lead to saying "no encryption", but not one for "only backdoored encryption".

While I oppose building backdoors, I don't really agree with this claim. There's nothing incoherent about developing a threat model.

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Re:France rejects backdoor mandate by whatshisface on Friday March 21, 2025 @07:43PM (#43441910)
I think some threat models, like one that doesn't include hackers, are not coherent relative to reality.
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Re:France rejects backdoor mandate by tshaddox on Friday March 21, 2025 @08:37PM (#43442223)
A threat model can include hackers while not taking every action that could prevent every conceivable attack from a hacker.
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Re:France rejects backdoor mandate by adgjlsfhk1 on Friday March 21, 2025 @09:18PM (#43442421)
Your government isn't the only one out there. If your government can have a backdoor, so can every other government. If the US, EU, Russia, and China all have backdoors to everything, who are you keeping it secret from?
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Re:France rejects backdoor mandate by cmonreally123 on Friday March 21, 2025 @10:52PM (#43442892)
The powers that can't pay? If the US, EU, Russia, China all have nukes to everything...
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