Government Encryption Backdoors Still Impossible and Pointless, Experts Say - They would end up being backdoors for everyone else
Encryption and technology experts told Tom's Guide that law-enforcement "backdoors" in encrypted apps and data would end up being backdoors for everyone else — and that they might not work in the long run anyway, because encryption that police couldn't crack would still be widely available.
To the layman it makes sense that consumers don't need extremely strong encryption, and that perhaps that should be reserved for entities that really need it. But Schneier and Graham said that argument was completely divorced from reality.
"The same consumer communications and computing devices are used by our lawmakers, CEOs, legislators, law enforcement officers, nuclear-power-plant operators, election officials and so on ... it's all the same tech," Scheier wrote. "Barr is wrong — it kind of is like these systems are protecting nuclear launch codes."
The real problem with te approach is the same as with banning gun ownership for law-abiding citizens, as clever criminals will anyway use their own, or other 3rd party, end-to-end encryption. So what are we doing, lessening the protections that small businesses, nuclear-power-plant operators, etc have to protect their devices and data from the bad guys.
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Like chasing 'a rainbow-colored unicorn'
source https://gadgeteer.co.za/node/3398
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