06-09-2021, 10:45 PM
(06-09-2021, 02:49 AM)Ninurta Wrote:(06-09-2021, 02:42 AM)ABNARTY Wrote: I wonder why they are touting how they did it? Wouldn't you want to keep that under wraps?
It makes laymen wary of using encryption. You just never know who is really running it, and laymen do not know what to look for to insure encrypted systems are actually secure and not backdoored. There are ways, things to look for and things to avoid, "Big Red Flags" one might say, but I'm not going to go into them here.
Fewer people using encryption, and especially not effective encryption, make the snooping on the populace much, MUCH easier. So they are trying to generate a fear of encryption to make their own jobs easier.
A side effect of releasing this information to the public is that it is a tip-off that they already have deeper things in motion, so they can afford to let this particular cat out of the bag to instill fear.
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You bring up a good point. You never know who is running your particular product. Could land you in some hot water. But then again if you are running drugs, child trafficking, or stolen weapons maybe you need to be in hot water.