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by wulfstan 425 days ago
Yes, I am arguing for is requiring OEMs to implement this mechanism.

Frankly, if the NSA wanted to have Apple build a custom iOS version for a criminal so they could sniff his network traffic and flash content from the comfort of Maryland I don't believe that would be impossible today.
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kube-system 425 days ago
If an OEM could decrypt a users data, a government typically won’t bother to do it themselves. They’ll just use legal mechanisms to require the OEM to do the work for them.
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wulfstan 425 days ago
Again, as a thought experiment, what legal protections can we put in place - an encryption ombudsman or independent authority - that would allow an arms length, controlled and expiring mechanism that allows limited access to a user's data? What would we as a society be happy to accept? I don't think the demand is an unreasonable one, but I'm trying to figure out what a reasonable collection of mechanisms looks like.
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kube-system 425 days ago
I think that’s more of a technical question. How would that entity be granted the ability to decrypt your data without the OEM being able?
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