You could say the same thing about TLS. If Verisign can make valid certificates then everybody can. Oh wait that's not how it actually works... We should stop pretending that it is a simple situation with a simple answer because it isn't. There may very well be a secure way to implement backdoors. If you are really against the idea then you should be arguing the more salient point that they shouldn't be allowed to have a backdoor because government access is inherently not desirable/constitutional/whatever.

...except that no ciphers anyone actually uses are perfectly secret anyway, so I'm not sure what your point is. As soon as you decide the OTP is too difficult to use then you leave the world of provable encryption and enter reality.

Ok so you have no evidence and are just talking out of your ass, glad we settled that.

Citation for that? She is on the record supporting net neutrality, possibly going even further than the FCC has so far.

Okay... but if you get shot do you go to the hospital and ask them to remove all foreign objects from your body or do you tell them to take out the bullet? There have been countless accusations of sexual assault by Uber drivers, not so much other types of violence.

The DAG is not asking for a universal back door, he wants something more like key escrow. Apple will keep a copy of every user's key which can be used by Apple to decrypt data if they are served with a warrant. Alternatively, they could have a separate "master key" for each device that unlocks the secure enclave and decrypts the phone. These keys could be set at manufacture and stored in an air-gapped vault or something.

There are ways to do this that don't introduce a lot of risk of accidental discovery or leaking. This is proven by the fact that Apple already has a master key that opens every iPhone, in the form of their root signing key, and it has never leaked. I am more worried about the precedent this would set. Even if you trust the US justice system (which lots of people don't), once we have this system set up in the US then China, Russian, etc. will ask for the same thing. That is not power that we want them to have. We should set an example for the world of absolutely secure devices that not the manufacturer, government, anyone can get into.

It bothers me how his argument is almost entirely a plea to emotion. It might as well be, "think about the children." Even if he is correct, that some violent criminals are getting away with crimes because we can't prosecute due to strong encryption, how many of those incidents are we willing to pay for more secure devices? It pains me to say it, but if we had to trade 10 murders for a few billion dollars of economic damage due to preventable cyber crime, I think there are very few people who would choose the second option. We know human lives have a price in this country or else we would have universal health care by now...

Another aggravating point in his speech is that he says, "we [the DoJ] are in the business of preventing crime and saving lives." That is not true. He is in the business of prosecuting crime and getting convictions. There are actually very few incentives for him to reduce crime. If removing encryption let him convict more criminals, and then had the side-effect of increasing cyber crime, leading to more criminal convictions, that is a win/win for him.

lol okay, now you are changing the definition of "exploded" to "anything that is at all tied to population increase." Literally any type of ownership of anything has exploded according to your logic. Maybe crime was reduced by the explosion of sex toy ownership? People have better things to do by themselves now.

Actually gun ownership has gone steadily down, so that's entirely wrong. But hey, don't be discouraged, maybe next time you make up a fact off the top of your head you will be accidentally right! http://www.norc.org/PDFs/GSS%2...

No because you use extremely specific language and we had this exact same exchange last time where you projected all your insecurities onto me. Seriously, talk to someone about your issues.

Obviously I am not going to search through hundreds of Slashdot articles because you are posting as AC but I have personally read this little rant at least three times and I'm not even on this site very often.

You might look older but you get to live longer.

Cool story bro, but the fact that you keep posting it over and over on tangentially related slashdot articles makes me really think you need some therapy. Let it go.

You have absolutely no proof, you can't just claim facts and make it true. Sorry.

Cool story bro, except that it is entirely wrong. And you are once again defending the actual, historical Nazis so I'm not engaging with you any more. Kindly fuck off.