Comment Limiting encryption does not stop it. (Score 1) 474
Ok, we go back to the days when the government says "you can't export anything greater than 40-bit encryption". Why is it we can now export 128-bit encrytion? Because every other country (well, at least most) in Europe and Asia was selling it.
US Companies were at a competitive disadvantage because they couldn't, legally, sell high encryption products overseas. Now replace "40-bit encryption" with "the US Government can't break or use a back-door to access" and you basically have the same thing.
Not only that, do you really think those back doors are going to stay secure. Heck no!! Once someone figures them out every bank transaction and email going across the internet is open season to hackers. I figure it would take about 24 hours for some hacker to figure out the back door and post an exploit.
It's kind of like the old saying "Encryption doesn't kill people, people kill people". Don't kill the method, it's sound and does what is supposed to do. Go get the bad guys. Besides, do you really think the bad guys really care about the law? In the case of NY, they didn't even care about themselves.
There are actual good uses for encryption. We use it to secure our financial transactions, to keep people from spying on our businesses, and between each other to keep private conversations private. Placing a backdoor in an encryption scheme makes it vulnerable.
Let's not let the terrorists win. Leave encryption alone and go get the real cause: terrorists.
US Companies were at a competitive disadvantage because they couldn't, legally, sell high encryption products overseas. Now replace "40-bit encryption" with "the US Government can't break or use a back-door to access" and you basically have the same thing.
Not only that, do you really think those back doors are going to stay secure. Heck no!! Once someone figures them out every bank transaction and email going across the internet is open season to hackers. I figure it would take about 24 hours for some hacker to figure out the back door and post an exploit.
It's kind of like the old saying "Encryption doesn't kill people, people kill people". Don't kill the method, it's sound and does what is supposed to do. Go get the bad guys. Besides, do you really think the bad guys really care about the law? In the case of NY, they didn't even care about themselves.
There are actual good uses for encryption. We use it to secure our financial transactions, to keep people from spying on our businesses, and between each other to keep private conversations private. Placing a backdoor in an encryption scheme makes it vulnerable.
Let's not let the terrorists win. Leave encryption alone and go get the real cause: terrorists.
