“Providing backdoors into people’s messages creates ongoing access for government agencies to everyone’s private messages, without reducing the ability for criminals to send encrypted messages via other covert means on the dark web,” said Walsh.
This is precisely the argument I'd have against what they're trying to do--criminals are not going to stop their activities, and the net result is going to be a decrease in freedom and privacy for everyone with no significant improvement as far as catching criminals.
This shit drives me nuts--governments want more and more power in the name of fighting [insert moral panic issue here], and the public takes it in the ass while the criminals find other ways of conducting their nefarious business. I'd like to think something like this would never happen in the US, but I'm not that naive. They've already been caught spying on citizens illegally, so I wouldn't put anything past them.
Thanks for posting this, OP.
Yup, this really isn't going to help anyone at all.
Installing a backdoor, or leaving something open 'only' for the government is an easy way to ensure that hackers and other malicious actors have access to your data. That's the issue with installing a backdoor. It's not about security or anything like that, it's about the fact that if you leave a backdoor for ONE GROUP, that means it's a potential backdoor for EVERYBODY. There's no way to ensure that the only person to use it is the government.
Sigh, I hate this. Government has to notice that they DONT need to see everything even if they want to. SIGH SIGH SIGH.
