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by white-flame 3291 days ago
Or, they're just going to redefine the term "backdoor" so it doesn't include automated access to endpoints, which is what this attempt smells like it would require. They might not want to call such a thing a backdoor for marketing/political purposes, but it still would be one. It would not be backdooring the encryption, but backdooring the software driving the user-facing plaintext.