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A coalition of dozens of the largest tech companies in the world is adamantly opposing any form of an official "backdoor" into encrypted devices.
The Information Technology Industry Council is a group of more than 60 major tech companies and organizations, including Google, Apple, Microsoft, Intel and Facebook.
"We deeply appreciate law enforcement's and the national security community's work to protect us," the council said in a statement issued Thursday, "but weakening encryption or creating backdoors to encrypted devices and data for use by the good guys would actually create vulnerabilities to be exploited by the bad guys, which would almost certainly cause serious physical and financial harm across our society and our economy."
(Score: 2) by linkdude64 on Friday November 27 2015, @08:52AM
"Why has no one done something like this?"
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/20/why-did-lavabit-shut-down-snowden-email [theguardian.com]
(Score: 2) by dyingtolive on Friday November 27 2015, @09:03AM
Oh yeah, totally. I remember when that story broke, and that's why I was thinking a distributed client anyone could run, rather than a centralized service. The dangerous, terrifying, and enticing thing is that I dump this project on github with an intuitive installer, and the proverbial genie is out of the bottle. I couldn't be threatened into stopping at that point, because I couldn't stop it if I wanted to. At the same time, that's what gives me the most fear about actually doing it.
Don't blame me, I voted for moose wang!