• Buffalox@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    We have an easy peasy solution to that.
    We will just make it illegal for burglars to look under the mat.
    And if they do look under the mat, we will also make it illegal fro them to take the key.
    Finally we will also make it illegal for burglars to use the key.

    See there an absolutely bullet proof solution, so why does the tech industry continue to claim this is a bad idea?
    As a politician I simply can’t understand why they are so contrary to this idea that will increase safety for everybody!!

    /s (just in case)

    • Lovable Sidekick@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      Or… you and a friend on another floor put your keys under each other’s mats. Then you both always have a way in and the chance of a burglar figuring it out is almost zero.

      • Em Adespoton@lemmy.ca
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        4 months ago

        That’s security through obscurity, as well as shared keys.

        What happens when the burglar in waiting watches someone grab the key and use it?

        Or in the case of phone security, what happens when your address is printed on the key?

        A better analogy is fire lock boxes, where apartment complexes have a master key stored in a box out front that can be unlocked with a master key firemen carry.

        Unfortunately, that bic pen trick turned out to work on those lock boxes a decade or so ago, meaning all a burglar needed to get into ANY residence in ANY building with a fire lock box was a bic pen. In fact, a burglar could open the box, get the key, duplicate it, put it back in the box, and nobody would even know security had been compromised.

        It’s a pretty good analogy for what’s being asked for here.

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    4 months ago

    Talk is cheap

    Keep pretending that the NSA doesn’t already have a million backdoors in your proprietary garbage, Tim.

  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
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    4 months ago

    Politicians who don’t understand technology (and some that do) will continue advocating for a break in encryption “so they can catch the bad guys.”

    No, you fuck. Either it’s protected or it’s not. I’ve just been listening to the latest podcast from 404 Media (you should check them out; print and audio). One of their primary stories is about cops accessing Flock cameras to stalk their ex-partners. AUTHORITY NEEDS LIMITS.

    Cops Keep Getting Arrested for Using Flock to Stalk People

  • Snapz@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Also Tim cook quote, “you’re so great Mr. Trump, we had an army man, nake you a special trophy just for you. The base is literally a gold bar that I’m illegally giving you. Isn’t that fun, you’re so great trump. Thank you trump. I love you trump. It’s such a joy to socialize with you trump”

    Sightly paraphrased

    • Cocodapuf@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      I think you’re missing the point. Apple has famously resisted implemented back doors for the authorities.

      He’s warning against leaving that metaphorical key under the mat.

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      4 months ago

      I don’t think they went through with it.

      I remember reading a related article reclaimthenet

      This same Home Office served Apple with a secret order, a Technical Capability Notice, demanding a backdoor into end-to-end encrypted iCloud backups, first for every human on the planet and later, after Washington threw a tantrum, for British users alone. Secret being the operative word, since the law gagged Apple from so much as admitting the order existed.

      Apple’s answer was to rip its strongest encryption out of the UK entirely rather than build the thing, sniffing that it has “never built a backdoor or master key to any of our products or services,” and the fight is still grinding through the courts. That is the track record of this government, one that asks one company, in the dark, to dismantle encryption for an entire nation is not a government you hand a camera-side scanner and trust to use it gently.

  • lyralycan@sh.itjust.works
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    4 months ago

    A burglar doesn’t intend to fuck up your whole life and/or extinguish it. I prefer the burglar over the cop.

  • wykopopo@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    If you put the key under the bed, the Esptenos will diddle you and declare you a national security threat.