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There is no such thing as a backdoor for good guys. Once you place a backdoor, you compromise the safety and privacy of all your users. A third party or bad guys will get access to it and abuse it fur (mastodon.social)
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There is no such thing as a backdoor for good guys. Once you place a backdoor, you compromise the safety and privacy of all your users. A third party or bad guys will get access to it and abuse it further. The concept of a "backdoor for good guys" is fundamentally flawed and dangerous. It sets a dangerous precedent. Security and privacy should be absolute. There's no safe way to create a backdoor that can't be exploited by malicious actors. #privacy #security #infosec

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[–] nazokiyoubinbou@mastodon.social 1 points 1 month ago

@nixCraft@mastodon.social 99.9999999% of the time (rounding down) the "good guys" the back door is being created for are actually not very good too.

But hey, they tell us they are, so I guess that's good enough.