There’s been an increasing call in recent weeks and months for encryption to have government ‘backdoors’ put into them. This is a bad idea. No really, it’s an incredibly bad idea. Even if we took the assumption that it is a push that’s made with only the purest of intentions, and the government universal key is kept 100% safe and secure and never leaked or misused, it’s still a really, unbelievably, stupid idea.
Makes me angry tax money is used for research and engineering how to break citizen’s encryption, how to make my devices less secure.
Goes against everything I learned in IT security and software engineering in general. Of course this introduces bugs, unexpected side effects, and creates opportunities for 3rd parties with more competence but worse intentions.