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Re: The Horror of a 'Secure Golden Key'

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In article <a0d+p8Rxgrc0PmAr3NZGUMzA@dont-email.me>,
Rich  <rich@example.invalid> wrote:
>https://keybase.io/blog/2014-10-08/the-horror-of-a-secure-golden-key
>
>   This week, the Washington Post's editorial board, in a widely circulated
>   call for "compromise" on encryption, proposed that while our data should
>   be off-limits to hackers and other bad actors, "perhaps Apple and Google
>   could invent a kind of secure golden key" so that the good guys could
>   get to it if necessary.
>
>   This theoretical "secure golden key" would protect privacy while
>   allowing privileged access in cases of legal or state-security
>   emergency. Kidnappers and terrorists are exposed, and the rest of us are
>   safe. Sounds nice. But this proposal is nonsense, and, given the
>   sensitivity of the issue, highly dangerous. Here's why.
>
>   A "golden key" is just another, more pleasant, word for a backdoor -
>   something that allows people access to your data without going through
>   you directly. This backdoor would, by design, allow Apple and Google to
>   view your password-protected files if they received a subpoena or some
>   other government directive. You'd pick your own password for when you
>   needed your data, but the companies would also get one, of their
>   choosing. With it, they could open any of your docs: your photos, your
>   messages, your diary, whatever.

Have we forgotten about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper_chip already?

-Gordon

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The Horror of a 'Secure Golden Key' Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-10-09 01:43 +0000
  Re: The Horror of a 'Secure Golden Key' RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-10-09 14:16 +0000
    Re: The Horror of a 'Secure Golden Key' Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-10-09 16:26 +0000
      Re: The Horror of a 'Secure Golden Key' Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2014-10-09 16:01 -0300
        Re: The Horror of a 'Secure Golden Key' RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-10-09 20:11 +0000
        Re: The Horror of a 'Secure Golden Key' Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2014-10-11 09:52 +0000
          Re: The Horror of a 'Secure Golden Key' Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2014-10-11 15:31 -0300
            Re: The Horror of a 'Secure Golden Key' polygonum <rmoudndgers@vrod.co.uk> - 2014-10-11 19:48 +0100
              Re: The Horror of a 'Secure Golden Key' Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2014-10-12 00:01 -0300
    Re: The Horror of a 'Secure Golden Key' Hils <hils@saynotospam.net> - 2014-10-09 19:34 +0100
      Re: The Horror of a 'Secure Golden Key' mm0fmf <none@mailinator.com> - 2014-10-09 21:24 +0100
        Re: The Horror of a 'Secure Golden Key' Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> - 2014-10-10 15:43 -0700
      Re: The Horror of a 'Secure Golden Key' Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-10-10 00:22 +0000
  Re: The Horror of a 'Secure Golden Key' Gordon Henderson <gordon+usenet@drogon.net> - 2014-10-09 17:17 +0000
    Re: The Horror of a 'Secure Golden Key' RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-10-10 11:51 +0000

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