Are there any real-world examples where encryption backdoors have been successfully used without compromising cybersecurity? How do different governments and tech companies approach this issue, and what are the implications for global digital security?

  • orclev@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    Please see exhibit A, the US telecoms infrastructure which has backdoors added by the alphabet agencies and has now been so thoroughly violated by Chinese hackers that they’ve basically given up trying to fix it. It would literally be easier to burn every telecom installation in the US to the ground and build new ones on the ashes than it would be to remove all the Chinese rootkits and back doors. All because someone just had to have a backdoor for the NSA/CIA/FBI.

    • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world
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      3 hours ago

      Member when they tried to do this publicly and it only took hackers a few months to completely annihilate the most secure backdoor ever devised?