[thwarted]

He used phrasing like "widely thought by experts to be impossible" (13m2s) a few times through this piece. Which cryptographers and cryptography experts think, in 2016, that a crypto system could be created that is, baring bugs, completely secure right up until the point where you don't want it to be? He showed clips of legislators asking for magic crypto unicorns (10m). Is this some kind of 4 out of 5 cryptographers think it's an "impossibility", and do we really think that that remaining one is actually an expert?

Or is this just an attempt at "fair and balanced" reporting, implying that, while they couldn't find any "experts" to take the opposite side, there must be some out there. John Oliver doesn't usually do that though.

[manuelflara]

I think what he meant with those words was that experts think it's impossible to create such a backdoor and keep it 100% safe from being leaked or exploited by bad actors. Which I think we all here can agree with.

[rtpg]

Well Apple has signing keys right? The signing keys are a backdoor, and we've mostly mastered "don't leak your secret keys."

Now for a backdoor that you're sharing with a bunch of people...

[monocasa]

But they would be asked to share this back door with the thousands of law enforcement organizations, as well as other countries. If they had to do the same with their signing keys, those wouldn't be secure either.

[datapolitical]

If you sound overly certain when people disagree with you they won't take you seriously.

[shard972]

Pretty much explained why Donald Trump is so popular at the moment.

[mistermann]

Glib dismissals like this are just one of his sources of power.

[kevinwang]

I'm not sure I completely understand your comment. Do you mean that instead of "widely thought by experts to be impossible", he should have said "all experts believe it to be impossible"?

[jlubawy]

It doesn't sound likely to be possible, but has it been proven so (in the rigorous mathematical sense)?

[logicrook]

>"widely thought by experts to be impossible" (13m2s) a few times through this piece. Which cryptographers and cryptography experts think, in 2016, [...]"

You take a John Oliver quote, and it contains the current year? Come on.