Backdoors ‘punish the wrong people’, EU security body (ENISA) warns

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  1. hawki

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    "...The agency [European Union Agency For Network and Information Security] offers a number of arguments in support of its conclusion, which can be summed up with reference to the unwritten first law of backdoors: they only work well when the people targeted by them don’t know they’re there. *

    As soon as they do, they no longer trust that technology or service and stop using it, undermining the point of putting the backdoor there in the first place...

    ..cybercriminals would quickly migrate to alternative encryption platforms or, worse still, start building their own. At that point, police and intelligence agencies would find themselves at an even greater disadvantage than they are today...

    ...the same cybercriminals (including nation states) would hunt down the secret backdoors, using any they found to turn the system against ordinary internet users...

    By that point, the network of trust that makes the internet possible might start to collapse..."

    https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2016/12/16/backdoors-punish-the-wrong-people-eu-security-body-warns/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+nakedsecurity+(Naked+Security+-+Sophos)

    * ENISA’s Opinion Paper on Encryption
    Strong Encryption Safeguards our Digital Identity

    https://www.enisa.europa.eu/publications/enisa-position-papers-and-opinions/enisas-opinion-paper-on-encryption
     
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