• someguy@pleroma.someotherguy.xyz
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    23 hours ago

    @return2ozma @technology
    10 years ago, the Feds wanted backdoors to all of phones so they could read all of our text messages. Now, the Feds want everyone not to use software that has backdoors so the Chinese cannot read our phones. The Feds don’t want competition.

    • SirEDCaLot@lemmy.today
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      9 hours ago

      Absolutely. They were so arrogant they never thought it would happen to us. After all, we are in charge of our own networks so why would we expect the enemy to be at the gates? Let’s make those gates out of cardboard so it’s easier to spy on everyone.

      Of course then you have things like CALEA mandating a back door, you have cheap telecom companies that will happily buy cheap lowest bidder Chinese hardware and install it "everywhere* without concern for security (after all, it’s not their data being stolen) and now the enemy isn’t just at the gates but inside the walls.

      A decade ago, making sure the feds could read everyone’s mail was the national security priority. Suddenly when the Chinese can read everyone’s mail, good security is the national security priority.

      It’s too bad there was no way to predict this in advance. Oh wait…

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      22 hours ago

      The backdoors they use are there for freedom and justice, the backdoors the “others” use are tools of evil and security risks!