FBI Wants Built-In Backdoors To Skype, Facebook, Etc.

[Dimensional]

All I can read from this is that it will encourage more encryption into various communication protocals and even the development of 3rd party programs that use these communication methods like Skype or IM, that wouldn't have these backdoors in them. It would increase secure communcation. That would in turn increase the development of powerful computers and decryption programs by the FBI and others to try and get around this, which in turn just makes this statement loop over and over and over and over again. The backdoors would then have to be made to be put in by the compilers, like GCC or Microsoft Visual Studios, so that they could be able to monitor the communication from the source even. Or the backdoors would have to be put into every OS, which nobody, not even the OS developers, would allow.

Uh, it's the FBI wanting backdoors for them installed into skype and such.

As in, they want to pass this amendment to the law, and the amendment would make skype and such legally be required to set up backdoors for the FBI.

Yes, and I'm pointing out the next steps that would be a result of all of this. I'm not saying it's an overly bad thing, but it will take up time and resources on both sides of the front, people arguing and supporting security, and people arguing and supporting privacy.

 

[Shoat]

Totally pointless.

Anyone using such sites and services who has something to hide will simply switch to a service that is not based in the US (and thus will not be affected by US law and not have such a backdoor).

 

[alphamule]

Well in the old days TM, we just had the NSA approve devices for export and it was amazing how the State Dept. always went with their recommendations.

A lot of manufacturers had backdoors because of deliberate design decisions, not just the need to get the approval of some crypto export authority. Those days are highly numbered thanks to things like DOCSIS 3.0 theft-of-service hacking and router worms.

 

[chartube12]

Totally pointless.

Anyone using such sites and services who has something to hide will simply switch to a service that is not based in the US (and thus will not be affected by US law and not have such a backdoor).

ICANN the company/agency responsible for internet law and development is a USA based company. If this pasts it effects the whole world, not just us here in the US.

 

[Frank Cadena]

@[member='Shoat']: And then anyone who doesn't the 'government approved' communication avenues would be branded as 'suspected terrorist'... The common people especially libertarians would have a massive shit fit.

 

[InuYasha]

Social networking sites are already spy tools...

 

[PolloDiablo]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBFHkTA2B_o

 

[ZAFDeltaForce]

What a world we live in these days.

At the rate this is going, I fear my children's children will not be able to take a shower without prior clearance and surveillance by some governing authority.

 

[Janthran]

Their faces when I find the backdoor code.
Heh. Heh. Heh.

 

[the_randomizer]

What a world we live in these days.

At the rate this is going, I fear my children's children will not be able to take a shower without prior clearance and surveillance by some governing authority.

And then we will have quota on how much water we drink, how much oxygen our bodies take in, heck, there will probably be a government mandate on how many times our cells can replicate.

 

[Foxi4]

It's nice that they *want* one.

I want a Vita, a 3DS, a DSi, a chipped Saturn and perhaps a set of extra controllers and other accessories. Doesn't mean I'm getting those anytime soon.

 

[alphamule]

Haha, yeah. But you know how a little kid can embarrass you before they realize they're not getting what they want just because they say so? Humanity seems ready to see a really loud kid get put in 'timeout' or something. More likely, the shunning version of the same.