This is the reason why no government or entity should ever be allowed a backdoor into any encryption system.
Next time any government wants to "protect the children" or insert other generic emotional reaction here by forcing backdoors into encryption systems, remember the overwhelming good things they for us.
Multiply that to infinity for all US owned or influenced phone, networking, or security products. And that's just the endpoints, let alone the monitoring of actual network transport infrastructure and everything people think of as "private" like VPN's, any sort of crypto blockchain, TOR, etc.
I'm amazed that people don't believe that a significant percentage of all chips and networking equipment on the market doesn't have, hard-coded in to it somewhere, something that looks for a specific frame, packet, or sequence of these, which acts as a kill-switch or similar.
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u/kixkato Feb 17 '25
This is the reason why no government or entity should ever be allowed a backdoor into any encryption system.
Next time any government wants to "protect the children" or insert other generic emotional reaction here by forcing backdoors into encryption systems, remember the overwhelming good things they for us.