Creating so-called "backdoors" means trusting someone to guard the keys to backdoors.
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This represents Chinese state leaders' position on backdoors, so we will never install backdoors on our equipment.
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There may be no reason to believe that the criminal and terrorist networks law enforcement say necessitates the backdoors would willfully use products with backdoors in them.
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Another theory that I would posit is that the U.S. does know about specific backdoors, but wants to use those backdoors for espionage rather than revealing them to the public.
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To compromise, be honest about risk: Supporters of backdoors often try to frame the debate as security versus civil liberties, rather than address the inevitable security problems backdoors will create.
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So we would never follow anyone's instructions to install backdoors.
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Intelligence agencies are notoriously against encryption and fans of backdoors.
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First, backdoors operate without consent of the computer system's owner.
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The phone is also loaded with backdoors and malicious apps.
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Even as security agencies are pushing for backdoors into encryption.
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Brown said this could be used for spreading technological backdoors.
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And there's never been a complaint on backdoors or traps.
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Huawei has always denied building backdoors into its own kit.
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Software backdoors are for the last war (terrorism) and wannabe tyrants.
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We endorse unified global standards that make installing backdoors a crime.
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But backdoors are different from other means of bypassing traditional security.
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The threat of backdoors is still a clear and present one.
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Such backdoors undermine everyone's security and threaten our right to privacy.
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Here's why: The iPhone already has backdoors Apple hasn't yet closed.
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Their findings included cryptocurrency mining malware and opening backdoors into systems.
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They also created backdoors for the new owners to eventually use.
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The arguments against backdoors in the 1990s are still applicable today.
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Strong encryption and so-called "backdoors," in other words, are mutually incompatible.
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Even if we were ordered to, Huawei would still not install backdoors.
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Nor code that's open sourced for auditing against any Trump-mandated backdoors.
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Do you take it as a given that Huawei equipment has backdoors?
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But if found by an attacker, backdoors can also be used maliciously.
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"No backdoors will be created into any of our systems," it said.
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Hackers installed backdoors on thousands of ASUS computers using its own software
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Gazer has not completely replaced other second-stage backdoors in the Turla.
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Such backdoors are many times discovered by professional or hobbyist reverse engineers.
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Hidden backdoors on the telecom network make it possible to access customer data.
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Also, do we want code with possible backdoors embedded in all our vehicles?
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However, European politicians have proposed legislation that would ban backdoors in encryption products.
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Instead, they argue, creating backdoors introduces new ways for hackers to steal data.
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Government backdoors undermine their promises — and could end up opening for hackers, too.
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Spokespeople for Huawei have stated their products do not contain government-mandated backdoors.
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Privacy proponents emphasize that there's no safe, foolproof way to implement encryption backdoors.
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The company has always denied that its equipment contains "backdoors" in this way.
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His efforts to require encryption backdoors in U.S. technology products are the main reason.
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Purposefully planted ones—hidden backdoors created by spies or saboteurs—are often even stealthier.
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Such backdoors could allow the PLA access to anything that appears on those servers.
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This is not about finding "backdoors" in current Huawei products — that's a fool's errand.
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Pushing for backdoors goes against the perspective of many tech insiders and security advocates.
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Or by forcing companies to build in backdoors — thereby breaking strong encryption in secret?
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The "backdoors" were a number of security flaws that Vodafone found in security testing.
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It's not the first time the Five Eyes nations have called for encryption backdoors.
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This newspaper has long argued against cryptographic backdoors and skeleton keys on these grounds.
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We have been fighting to protect encryption, and stop backdoors, for over 20 years.
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The project will allow anyone to inspect the hardware for security vulnerabilities and backdoors.
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Barr did not rule out pushing legislation to force tech companies to build backdoors.
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Experts believe nearly unanimously that weakening encryption with backdoors would catastrophically reduce global cybersecurity.
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Washington argues that surreptitious backdoors aren't necessarily needed to wreak havoc in 25G systems.
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He also pushed back against U.S. assertions that backdoors in networks were an issue.
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The Department of Justice under the Obama administration was also determined to establish backdoors.
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"If we open these things up, there are consequences," Lee warned about encryption backdoors.
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Especially given the US's own history of planting backdoors in technologies around the world.
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In a short statement, Facebook said it strongly opposes government attempts to build backdoors.
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"We don't want undisclosed backdoors into our systems," Conaway told The Hill last month.
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However, when we examine the implications of having Apple and other companies build "backdoors" into their products that enable law enforcement authorities to access encrypted data on endpoint devices, we soon find that building such backdoors actually creates more problems than it solves.
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Any national law mandating encryption backdoors will overwhelmingly affect the innocent users of those products.
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Even if you support putting in backdoors for encryption, you can still support that bill.
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At least it's a good way to educate politicians so they stop asking for backdoors.
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Following Tim Cook's letter, the White House has reacted to Apple's strong stance against backdoors.
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Meanwhile, the negative impact of creating these backdoors in hardware and software products is significant.
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These backdoors would grant them access to Americans' personal data through a supposedly secure channel.
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The company hired security experts from Deloitte, which found basic backdoors into the company's servers.
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Hackers broke into Microsoft's Visual Studio and seeded backdoors into at least three video games
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In a three paragraph statement, Facebook said it strongly opposes government attempts to build backdoors.
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Privacy experts also worry backdoors could be used as tools for mass surveillance by authoritarian regimes.
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When attending a summit in Croatia, Premier Li also told our employees not to install backdoors.
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WhatsApp seized on US allegations against Huawei to defend encryption against the government's demands for backdoors.
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So what was the point of politicians trying to enforce backdoors in mainstream apps and services?
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Their code is shocking and there are multiple backdoors in a load of internet enabled devices.
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Second, the actions performed by backdoors are at odds to the stated purpose of the system.
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If something was completely open then there is no reason to have backdoors or anything else.
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"Having mandates in the laws to have backdoors is just a really bad idea," said Hall.
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The report does not conclude that the bugs are intentional backdoors created for the Chinese government.
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"We are not a fan of backdoors," said Marc van Zadelhoff, general manager of IBM Security.
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"These people will be left vulnerable to abuse of those backdoors by cybercriminals and other governments."
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Backdoors are usually secret, but may be exploited by hackers if they are revealed or discovered.
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In the meantime, Apple has an entire section of their website denouncing backdoors for government agencies.
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They insist such guarantees would create "backdoors," or security vulnerabilities, that hackers and spies could exploit.
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What it doesn't mean, though, is that the Obama administration has suddenly turned its back on backdoors.
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For years many institutions have issued guidance documents that are, in reality, backdoors to massive new regulations.
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They say backdoors would expand government's surveillance abilities and create security weaknesses exploitable by hackers and criminals.
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In other words, when Congress passed CALEA, it declined to compel information service providers to build backdoors.
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Another former NSA boss, Mike McConnell, has also spoken out against trying to install backdoors in encryption.
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"The Chinese government has already clearly said that it won't install any backdoors," he told the BBC.
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That means the code is proprietary and could have flaws — or worse, susceptible to backdoors or exploitation.
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If those practices include backdoors, however, it's only a matter of time before others disclose them first.
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Nothing would stop the FBI from asking for other backdoors for just one phone, again and again.
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Apple is saying that backdoors would compromise security and anyone would be able to exploit a backdoor.
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Officials in the EU, Germany, France and the United Kingdom have all called for these encryption backdoors.
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Of these, 2,100 had backdoors already installed, with Samsam either established or ready to take up residence.
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That revelation, cryptographers and technologists said, undermined the FBI's renewed push for backdoors in consumer encryption products.
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We need to give our people the right tools, without any backdoors and built to protect data.
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The US has expressed concern that Huawei might provide technological backdoors for the Chinese government to spy.
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"We will need to say that the backdoors could not be used for intelligence," that source said.
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The government may need to be prepared to repay users for the security meltdowns backdoors would cause.
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Evans also found "plenty of evidence" of a "wide range of backdoors," perhaps written by several developers.
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I'm not just talking about backdoors, but in terms of infiltration, and in terms of operational security.
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BuzzFeed reports that it sent a statement in which it strongly opposes government attempts to build backdoors.
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USB drives can harbor malware that can open and install backdoors on a victim's computer, Williams said.
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A Motherboard investigation, relying heavily on public records requests, has unearthed even more evidence that "backdoors" are unnecessary.
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Markowicz simply opens the van's backdoors and drops down a couple of drapes to create a dark room.
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" It added that "there is absolutely no truth in the suggestion that Huawei conceals backdoors in its equipment.
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In response to Rudd's comments, security and privacy experts outlined the dangers of introducing backdoors into encrypted apps.
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U.S. officials claim they have evidence Huawei retains backdoors into its equipment that Beijing could use for spying.
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However that viewpoint flies in the face of the majority opinion of the security industry on backdoors — i.e.
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All these activities have apparently been enabled by backdoors in the global financial system, such as foreign intermediaries.
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IT SHOULDN'T HAVE HIDDEN BACKDOORS AND WAYS THAT – YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN IN THE FUTURE.
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Conyers noted that he has long opposed mandating backdoors, but that reasonable minds could disagree on the topic.
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Postscript: For those interested, the debate over whether law enforcement agencies should have encryption backdoors is not new.
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It said none of its systems will have so-called backdoors that allow outside parties to access data.
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His team, hired by the company in late September, found simple backdoors in Avid Life's Linux-based servers.
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The US government has long worried the company could build backdoors for the Chinese government into its products.
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On Tuesday, a little known security company claimed to have found vulnerabilities and backdoors in some AMD processors.
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Most researchers argue that building backdoors into security protocols make it inherently insecure and open to attack from hackers.
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Opponents of governmental backdoors are talking about the privacy and safety of everyone who uses technology and the internet.
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The reality is, the good publicity came along with Apple's correct understanding that backdoors make us all less secure.
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The company, it seems, could have provided help early on, without much legal wrangling or more software controversial backdoors.
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This "new crypto war" pits public safety concerns against the argument that backdoors and robust security are mutually exclusive.
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Viruses, worms, spyware, ransomware, backdoors, Trojans: The language of cybersecurity is relatively new, but we have quickly become fluent.
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Tech companies argue that any so-called "backdoors" in their systems compromise their ability to ensure security and privacy.
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The source code is available on GitHub, making it far more difficult to covertly insert backdoors into the code.
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Congress could pass a law that requires all manufacturers to include backdoors for law enforcement to access their devices.
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But privacy advocates and security experts say that creating "backdoors" for law enforcement would jeopardize security and user privacy.
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Lawmakers and intelligence agencies advising them worry that the companies could provide technological backdoors into sensitive data of Americans.
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The fact that to date we do not have scalable and safe backdoors is not for lack of trying.
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Various backdoors, control measures, and surveillance applications have been built directly into the "Great Firewall" of Chinese online infrastructure.
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These backdoors can be extremely difficult to detect, according to a November warning from the Department of Homeland Security.
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We oppose government attempts to build backdoors because they would undermine the privacy and security of our users everywhere.
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We strongly oppose government attempts to build backdoors because they would undermine the privacy and security of people everywhere.
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The Justice Department has pushed encryption backdoors for years, citing threats like terrorism, but they haven't gotten legal traction.
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"I do think backdoors are a terrible idea, that is not the way to go about this," Nadella said.
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Backdoors can also be exploited by those who threaten our national security and the data security of our customers.
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We strongly oppose government attempts to build backdoors because they would undermine the privacy and security of people everywhere.
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For over a decade, the FBI and Department of Justice have been publicly complaining about encryption and demanding tech companies design convenient backdoors to bypass their password security—though federal, state, and local police forces have been quietly buying devices designed to crack phone security without said backdoors at the same time.
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Once inside, the group was able to install backdoors that aligned with the trojans used by the first Dragonfly operation.
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If such backdoors were then used by criminals it would be the state itself that was aiding and abetting crime.
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"Technical support" is also not clearly defined, but could mean providing encryption backdoors or other surveillance assistance to the government.
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Bloomberg reported Tuesday that Vodafone's Italian division had discovered "backdoors" in its Huawei-brand telecommunications equipment in 2011 and 2012.
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It is therefore essential that 5G infrastructures in the EU are resilient and fully secure from technical or legal backdoors.
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Documents published at the time showed the NSA targeted Huawei's devices with backdoors codenamed HALLUXWATER, and a tool codenamed TURBOPANDA.
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In this way, attackers can distribute tainted Excel spreadsheets that wreak havoc, from granting attackers system privileges to installing backdoors.
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Should tech companies provide governments with backdoors to their products, enabling them to bypass encryption and access people's personal data?
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Companies may build "backdoors" into their systems, however, so that developers can bypass authentication and dive right into the program.
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Apple has taken a strong stance on privacy ever since the FBI began loudly demanding encryption backdoors into its products.
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The solution uses proprietary technology and processes to identify and eliminate vulnerabilities and backdoors in a network component's source code.
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Backdoors are a horrible idea and any government who suggests them is proposing weakening the security and privacy of everyone.
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Network and security vulnerabilities, such as WannaCry or backdoors to encryption, should not be unnecessarily stockpiled or mandated by governments.
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The creation of backdoors and intercept capabilities would weaken the protections built into Apple products and endanger all our customers.
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But they also expressed bipartisan concern about the risks of creating backdoors, given the potential that they could be abused.
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Horvath added that she doesn&apost support the creation of backdoors to give law enforcement easier access to encrypted phones.
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He is the top advocate for mandating backdoors in encrypted communications apps - something which President trump's attorney general nominee, Sen.
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Embed backdoors in encryption and network gear, they've warned, and you're undermining an essential security tool, putting everybody at risk.
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But technology companies should not be required to build in backdoors to the technologies that keep their users' information secure.
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The backdoors "[raise] concerning questions regarding security practices, auditing, and quality controls at AMD," the researchers wrote in the paper.
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"The US government's concern about possible backdoors in Huawei-built networks only underscores why it is untenable for the government to demand that US-based tech companies create backdoors for domestic law enforcement agencies," Andrew Crocker, Senior Staff Attorney at the digital rights group the Electronic Frontier Foundation, told Business Insider in a statement.
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WhatsApp seized on the story as an example of why it shouldn't build backdoors in its encrypted messaging for law enforcement.
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Earlier in his career, Zdziarski worked on jailbreaking iPhones and, in 2014, he raised the issue of backdoors in Apple products.
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Even if the administration actively wanted legally mandated backdoors, though, the Burr-Feinstein bill would be an unlikely place to start.
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Google encrypts end-to-end data to prevent snooping by the federal agencies and Apple has fought backdoors to decrypt phones.
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Governments are pushing for backdoors through encryption, but perhaps there's another way to keep people safe without violating privacy for everyone.
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Privacy advocates and technology firms have long decried mandatory "backdoors" into encryption as a danger to both user safety and privacy.
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The FBI's Going Dark Initiative has been pushing for encryption backdoors since 2014, and they have no intention of stopping now.
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We do not provide backdoors to anyone, whether we have a warrant canary or not, nor will we do so. Period.
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So, it is time to ask whether instead of engineering backdoors into encryption systems, are there other reasonable technological solutions available?
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"We are concerned that the commission may focus on shortsighted solutions involving mandated or compelled backdoors [into encrypted platforms]," he said.
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Besides, as the fallout between the FBI and Apple over backdoors reminded us, there's no such thing as an unhackable device.
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US officials say Huawei maintains backdoors into telecom networks across the world, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal.
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The centre has never publicly reported finding backdoors in Huawei&aposs equipment, although it has criticized the firm for sloppy engineering.
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The argument against backdoors runs that they weaken the system, as they could be exploited by malicious actors rather than law enforcement.
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And Apple has been happy to walk away from that incident without being forced to create future backdoors for the US government.
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Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act gives authorities additional powers to compel service providers to build backdoors into their products.
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The US argues that China's government could force companies like Huawei to install backdoors in their equipment to spy on American networks.
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Social networks such as Facebook and Twitter are officially blocked in Iran, but millions exploit the internet's many backdoors to gain access.
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There was never any hard evidence of backdoors in Huawei's cell towers — but, as hawks saw it, there didn't need to be.
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The government can now oblige tech firms to create backdoors to their systems to allow the authorities to spy on their customers.
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There's also the legal precedent—compelling device manufacturers to write custom software to facilitate investigations is a slippery slope towards encryption backdoors.
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Trump has gone on the record asking for backdoors to encryption and devices, saying he supports surveillance, and is against Net Neutrality.
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Backdoors can give companies, governments, and hackers various kinds of illicit access into electronic devices that are thought to be otherwise secure.
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Nevertheless, the decision looked especially poor in light of Amazon's support of Apple's position to not build security backdoors into consumer devices.
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Moreover, creating backdoors to access encrypted data on endpoint devices is not a silver bullet that will win the war on terrorism.
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Then, once it's on your device, it creates backdoors to allow a hacker in, or to allow other malware to be installed.
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Activist groups and privacy advocates on Capitol Hill insist that this language would require companies to create dangerous "backdoors" for secure products.
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Backdoors are not just an issue for surveillance, they also enable hackers to steal the data that a company has about you.
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"There is absolutely no truth in the suggestion that Huawei conceals backdoors in its equipment," a Huawei spokesman said in a statement.
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Huawei executives, including founder Ren Zhengfei, who rarely speaks out publicly, have firmly denied the presence of any backdoors in its equipment.
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Huawei founder Ren has said that no law required his company to install so-called backdoors that could be used for spying.
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Obama's aides didn't openly back law enforcement's demands for backdoors, and his White House quietly scrapped encryption proposals to avoid a backlash.
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It's very difficult to vet market-ready devices for intentional backdoors, especially those designed to weaken encryption algorithms in near-imperceptible ways.
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Encryption "backdoors are a horrible idea," Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said in response to the speech, per the Information's Jessica Lessin. Sen.
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Encryption "backdoors are a horrible idea," Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said in response to the speech, the Information's Jessica Lessin tweeted. Sen.
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And by creating the backdoors, tech companies increase the complexity of their code, likely creating more coding errors that hackers could exploit.
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"We oppose government attempts to build backdoors because they would undermine the privacy and security of our users everywhere," Facebook told Bloomberg.
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However, Huawei has previously stated that the Chinese government cannot legally compel telecoms firms to install backdoors or listening devices in other nations.
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The research describes some as backdoors deliberately included in the chips by Taiwanese company ASmedia, which partners with many manufacturers to produce components.
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On April 12, at the "16+1 Summit" in Croatia, Premier Li repeatedly told all our employees not to install backdoors on networks.
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While Trojans and backdoors are not easily detectable by themselves, devices may appear to run slower due to heavy processor or network usage.
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On encryption, Ansip tweeted in March that "weakening encryption is not an option" — and has spoken out rejecting the idea of mandatory backdoors.
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In fact, even The Wall Street Journal admits that US officials are unable to provide any concrete details concerning these so-called 'backdoors.
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Backdoors typically grant hidden or undocumented access to a system, and can be used for tech support to remotely login and troubleshoot issues.
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And whether it would seek to block access to services that offer e2e encryption and cannot be legally compelled to build in backdoors.
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"Apple has strong data privacy and security protections in place and no backdoors will be created into any of our systems," it says.
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Because how will any technology company be able to offer trusted services to consumers if government-mandated backdoors are being forced upon them?
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Not to mention potentially compromise the security of software programs used by many more people if backdoors are being intentionally inserted into systems.
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The company is all but banned in America for fear that its wares contain "backdoors" for Chinese spooks to eavesdrop on data transmissions.
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Surely, then, the very definition of a 'backdoor', despite earlier government claims the legislation is not asking for backdoors (or demanding encryption keys).
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Does this mean the government wants backdoors inserted into services or the handing over of encryption keys, May was asked by the committee.
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Lawmakers, including a bipartisan study group, and encryption researchers say Comey's call for encryption backdoors would make all products vulnerable to new attacks.
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And we haven't even touched on the fact that these devices are as capable as any computer of having backdoors or malicious code.
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Experts on encryption continue to argue that such backdoors are a far greater risk to national security than they are an investigative tool.
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The U.S. has said Huawei equipment could provide backdoors for the Chinese government into American networks — a claim the company has repeatedly denied.
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Calls to force companies to build backdoors for law enforcement and to regulate encryption have many of the same problems of the past.
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U.S. intelligence agencies allege that Huawei is linked to China's government and that its equipment could contain "backdoors" for use by government spies.
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But some federal officials are now pressuring tech companies to create so-called "backdoors" that allow law enforcement to work around encrypted devices.
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The four observations were: The report should at least pause the debate as to whether Congress should provide law enforcement with encryption backdoors.
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Microsoft found in April that hackers hijacked its development tool Visual Studio, seeding backdoors into three video game companies that use the tool.
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Any rules forcing companies to engineer backdoors in their products will increase the threat of cyberattacks and further destabilize our digital security infrastructure.
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The company has staked a firm position that introducing backdoors for law enforcement would create vulnerabilities that could be exploited by nefarious actors.
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The debate: Law enforcement authorities seek legislation mandating "backdoors" in phones and other devices letting them access even encrypted contents in extraordinary circumstances.
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Objective By The Sea will feature talks on leveraging Apple's game engine to detect attacks, MacOS backdoors, Apple's secure boot process, and more.
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That gear, which is pre-loaded with backdoors, has given their hackers potential access to many critical corporate networks inside the United States.
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Intelligence officials in the U.S. have expressed concerns that the company could set up "backdoors" to help the Chinese government spy on Americans.
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A House working group investigating encryption recently found that the security risks from introducing backdoors that hackers might exploit outweighed their investigative value.
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Ted Lieu (D-CA), would restrict state and local governments from requiring backdoors to exist, and also prevent any restriction of encryption capabilities.
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James Comey, the director of the FBI, advocated for an international framework to create these backdoors in encryption as recently as last week.
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Federal agencies have continued that push, but tech companies have been resistant to build backdoors, arguing they would weaken security across the board.
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Major tech companies have been strongly opposed to building backdoors though because it would undermine their services' security, so a compromise doesn't look likely.
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It would force companies to deliberately weaken the security of their products by providing backdoors into the devices and services that everyone relies on.
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U.S. intelligence agencies also allege that Huawei is linked to China's government and that its equipment could contain "backdoors" for use by government spies.
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All of which provides some context for what is perhaps the most specific pledge in the social contract — not to build in any backdoors.
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To appease potential clients, Huawei has gone around the world offering no-backdoors pacts to local governments of the U.K. and most recently India.
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After all, if compelling Apple to maim itself is allowed, compelling Google and Facebook and Microsoft to write security backdoors would also be allowed.
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Why, with robust encryption of course… As tech companies continue to point out, you can't provide backdoors in encryption just for 'the good guys'.
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In their memo, the governments stress that these backdoors would only be for "lawful" access to a device, such as in a criminal investigation.
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In the past, Chinese routers from Shenzhen-based Netcore and DBL Technology were found to have backdoors that bad actors could exploit for access.
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The HeartBleed bug in openssl and the various backdoors discovered in network security devices have caused concerns of trust for a number of manufacturers.
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Equally concerning proposals before Congress are forced encryption backdoors to personal digital communications, and mandatory private sector monitoring and censorship of all digital content.
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With numbers overinflated between 4 and 8-fold, the FBI was arguing backdoors were 4 to 8 times more important than they actually are.
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Strazzere claimed there are still devices being sold online which contain the same, or nearly identical backdoors to what Jon and him previously highlighted.
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Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and Richard Burr (R-NC) introduced in 2016, which would have forced tech companies to build backdoors in its systems.
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There are important concerns about the Chinese networking firm Huawei creating backdoors for surveillance or tilting the carrier equipment market toward Chinese-defined standards.
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However, we imagine the company will repeat what it's been saying for years: Encryption backdoors are inherently dangerous, and it can't unlock iPhones anyway.
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Apple has steadfastly declined to build special "backdoors" for law enforcement to circumvent encryption, arguing those same vulnerabilities would quickly be abused by criminals.
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Mulvaney's visit to the UK also comes a week after the US accused Huawei of spying telecoms backdoors designed for use by law enforcement.
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U.S. intelligence agencies have also alleged that Huawei is linked to China's government and its equipment could contain "backdoors" for use by government spies.
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In 1996, Leahy introduced two bills that would have rolled back restrictions on exporting strong cryptography outside the US and prohibit government-mandated backdoors.
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The email provider had also not placed any backdoors in its hardware or software, nor received any requests to do so, the canary adds.
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But still, as far as we know, the goal is real—to build a phone without backdoors because that's the safest way to do it.
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"It is therefore essential that 5G infrastructures in the EU are resilient and fully secure from technical or legal backdoors," Ansip said in a statement.
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The company also described a flaw that takes advantage of firmware and hardware backdoors, enabling attackers to inject malicious code into the AMD Ryzen chipset.
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Some of the smartest minds in cryptography have explained at length that backdoors are a bad idea because they make us all inherently less secure.
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Huawei repeatedly has denied the U.S. argument that the Chinese government could force it to install backdoors in its equipment, to spy on American networks.
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Countries around the world are calling for tech platforms to break their encryption or build backdoors into their products — ostensibly in service of law enforcement.
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If the FBI is allowed to have access to encrypted information via manufactured backdoors, then our rights are in grave danger, according to the duo.
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"Wray never replied, so more than a year later, Wyden wrote again: "Experts have said repeatedly, for decades, that strong encryption is incompatible with backdoors.
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Callas spoke to Motherboard about government backdoors, the need for tech expertise in policymaking, and what he considers the biggest challenge for the security industry.
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We see the government pushing for backdoors, people to unlock iPhones, and having these systems that makes, Silicon Valley argues, technology less safe for everyone.
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I don't think backdoors would actually help law enforcement that much, it's just that people are always drawn to mysteries and to breaking down locks.
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If you care about the lives of queer and trans people, you should join the growing movement opposing government backdoors in our phones and computers.
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"What this demonstrates is that domestic laws regarding encryption backdoors won't work," said respected cryptographer Bruce Schneier, one of three co-authors of the report.
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If the US did pass a law restricting encryption or mandating backdoors, the result would likely be a shift to oversea vendors, the paper concludes.
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In other words, there is actually legislation that prevents the government from asking for the inclusion of backdoors that can be used to bypass encryption.
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We've never provided backdoors into any of our products, and I think that citizens around the world want their privacy, but they also want security.
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Whether tech companies should cooperate with law enforcement by either creating backdoors into devices or aiding police in special investigations is a legal grey area.
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Researchers who uncovered a security key that protects Windows devices as they boot up say their discovery is proof that encryption backdoors do not work.
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Critics of the draft legislation worry that it is impractical and will ultimately weaken digital security by forcing companies to write "backdoors" into their systems.
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Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and Richard Burr (R-NC), for example, are two of the most prominent proponents of encryption backdoors on the Hill.
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Surveillance, on the other hand, aims to install backdoors into software that would make it easier to secretly access large amounts of supposedly secure communications.
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This is on top of things such as attempting to compel companies to build backdoors into their products, or to force suspects to decrypt devices.
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Trump's former deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein called for backdoors in 2018 to deal with what's known as "the going dark problem" in digital technologies.
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A cottage industry of third-party encryption applications for iPhones and other mobile devices would sprout up overnight if Apple were compelled to build backdoors.
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Guo Ping, the company's rotating chairman, said during a keynote address on Tuesday that Huawei "has not and will never plant backdoors" in its products.
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Earlier this week US officials accused Chinese tech giant Huawei of spying for the Chinese government by using telecoms backdoors designed for use by law enforcement.
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" Guo argues that his company "hampers US efforts to spy on whomever it wants," reiterating its position that "Huawei has not and will never plant backdoors.
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Congress has, in recent years, considered legislation that would require device-makers to build so-called "backdoors" and help law enforcement agencies access target devices. Sens.
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"Apple has strong data privacy and security protections in place and no backdoors will be created into any of our systems," it said in a statement.
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Some countries are worried that Huawei could install so-called backdoors in its telecommunications networking equipment that would allow the Chinese government to access user data.
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The Department of Justice has repeatedly pushed for tech companies to implement backdoors, which would give agencies more guaranteed access to encrypted messages or hard-drives.
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Only earlier this year, the governmental coalition said in no uncertain terms that it would force backdoors if companies weren't willing to help their governments spy.
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But backdoors are far from a new phenomenon, and don't have to take the form of a piece of software installed in an otherwise free device.
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If Clinton's campaign enjoys the security and privacy of using encrypted messaging with no government backdoors, why won't it support it for the rest of us?
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Guo further insisted during his 17-minute keynote address that the company "has not and will never plant backdoors," which is quickly becoming a company line.
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Photo: Getty ImagesVodafone Italy discovered backdoors in its Huawei home internet routers and software between 2009 and 2011 according to a new report from Bloomberg News.
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It could lead to putting these backdoors into everyone's smart phone, PC or other computing device, creating a whole new attack vector for hackers to exploit.
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It required telecom companies to build so-called "backdoors" into their systems so that police could more easily conduct surveillance on targets' phones in real time.
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But the treaty won't involve breaking end-to-end encryption or backdoors, according to WhatsApp chief Will Cathcart and Facebook's former chief security officer Alex Stamos.
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Researchers who successfully reverse-engineered master keys used by the Transportation Security Authority say their work should be a metaphor for the dangers of encryption backdoors.
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"The new rules should… clearly allow users to use end-to-end encryption (without 'backdoors') to protect their electronic communications," Buttarelli writes in his ePrivacy opinion.
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But easy access to iPhone hacking tools also hamstrings the FBI's argument for introducing backdoors into consumer devices so authorities can more readily access their contents.
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CALEA compels service providers like AT&T and Verizon to build backdoors into their systems to allow for real-time monitoring of suspects by law enforcement.
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US officials have previously said they didn't need to justify their reservations about Huawei and the potential that the company's equipment could contain Chinese government backdoors.
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Fortunately, the US, UK and other Western governments have so far resisted the siren call of perfect information and have held back from mandating similar backdoors.
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Huawei has extensive US and international operations and has vowed that it would never install or allow others to install so-called 'backdoors' into its equipment.
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And, ultimately, whether to push for legislation requiring backdoors in end-to-end encryption to afford the region's law enforcement agencies access to user data on-demand.
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Apple's refusal to comply with a court order to help the FBI crack an iPhone highlighted the pressure tech companies face to include backdoors in their software.
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Over the last few months, the Home Office has tried to make it clear that it does not want to ban encryption, or to introduce encryption backdoors.
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Now Congress and some portion of the U.S. public is anxious to get ahead of future terrorist threats by making technology backdoors the law of the land.
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Germany proposed the establishment of a unified global convention that would bar all equipment vendors from installing backdoors, and require them to sign a no-spy agreement.
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NSA headquarters NSA headquarters This is the approach taken by Germany, which recently created a new agency to help law enforcement cope with encryption without mandatory backdoors.
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The U.S. continues to demand a ban on Huawei even as it steadfastly refuses to provide evidence of backdoors or other security flaws in the company's equipment.
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We all love privacy, we all care about public safety and none of us want backdoors — we don't want access to devices built in in some way.
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Vodafone denied a Bloomberg report on Tuesday that stated it had found "backdoors" hidden in Huawei equipment supplied to its Italian business dating back years, per BBC.
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"Compelling companies to put backdoors into encrypted services would make millions of ordinary people less secure online," the group's executive director, Jim Killock, said in a statement.
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"Any US law mandating backdoors will primarily affect people who are unconcerned about government surveillance, or at least unconcerned enough to make the switch," the authors write.
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In addition, if we start down the slippery slope of including backdoors in our computing devices, then sophisticated terrorists and other criminals will pursue alternative security solutions.
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The European Union will consider a few different plans to require backdoors in encryption products this June, EU Justice Commissioner for Human Rights Věra Jourová announced Monday.
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The question of whether Huawei's 5G equipment could contain backdoors allowing access to spies is dividing Canada and its partners in the Five Eyes intelligence-sharing network.
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"Some in the executive branch continue their misguided campaign to weaken encryption and create backdoors into Americans' personal devices," Wyden said in a statement sent to Motherboard.
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And that's why Americans for Prosperity is urging Congress to pass the Secure Data Act to protect Americans from backdoors that would have unintended – perhaps disastrous – consequences.
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Operation GhostSecret incorporated a robust command infrastructure that supported multiple functions such as deleting files and even leaving backdoors for other viruses to use in future attacks.
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The group, which Symantec has named "Orangeworm," has been installing backdoors in large international corporations based in the U.S., Europe and Asia from the health-care sector.
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But mobile security researchers say they already confronted Adups, and warned vendors who sold its products, about the backdoors over the last few years, to little avail.
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In March, the New York Times reported that FBI and Justice Department officials have reignited the hunt for backdoors, and have been quietly meeting with security researchers.
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Correction: An incorrect statement about cold boot attacks was changed in the fourth paragraph.. 'Five Eyes' governments call on tech giants to build encryption backdoors — or else
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If one thing was made clear today, it's that Congress is woefully unequipped to be debating encryption and backdoors for law enforcement with the major tech giants.
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MC: What I think you're talking about is the renewed push by the justice department to force tech companies to build backdoors into encryption on consumer devices.
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"Strong encryption is essential for national security and public safety, and exceptional access mechanisms—commonly referred to as 'backdoors'—would create significant security risks," the groups wrote.
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Cotton and Rubio's legislation is rooted in concern that the Chinese government could use encryption backdoors in ZTE and Huawei phones to spy on U.S. government officials.
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Apple, for its part, has said it uses encryption across devices and servers in all countries and insists there are no backdoors into data centers or systems.
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The impetus for Cotton and Rubio's legislation is concern over the Chinese government using hypothetical backdoors in ZTE and Huawei phones to spy on U.S. government officials.
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While Wray remains a bit of an unknown on many tech issues, earlier in 2017, his would-be predecessor at the FBI made a similarly ambiguous statement that ultimately sounded like advocacy for backdoors: "We all love privacy, we all care about public safety and none of us want backdoors — we don't want access to devices built in in some way," Comey said during a Senate Oversight Committee hearing.
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Encryption backdoors are the zombie of bad ideas and I want to know how many times we have to shoot it in the head before it stays down.
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Thus Huawei bosses note assurances from the Chinese foreign ministry that no law exists that could make Chinese firms install backdoors in digital devices, for spies to use.
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Israel-based cybersecurity firm CTS Labs said it found 13 critical security vulnerabilities and manufacturer backdoors in AMD's EPYC, Ryzen, Ryzen Pro and Ryzen Mobile lines of processors.
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This means that Australian authorities will be able to compel tech companies like Facebook and Apple to make backdoors in their secure messaging platforms, including WhatsApp and iMessage.
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If what you're really saying is 'I want to make you suppress the [automatic] messages that say a new device was added,' then we're back to mandating backdoors.
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That includes installing backdoors in web browsers and stealing data websites stored on a computer -- called cookies -- that would give an attacker access to sites the user visits.
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On Monday she explained how to check for a tainted software update that installed malicious backdoors on thousands of Asus computers, a sophisticated hack first reported by Motherboard.
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But Congress could throw a curve ball into the whole process by passing its own encryption bill that could mandate companies to build devices with backdoors built in.
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Yesterday, Motherboard revealed that Taiwanese computer hardware company ASUS was used to install backdoors on thousands of its customers' computers, according to researchers from cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Lab.
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It is time for lawmakers and everyone else who believes in mandatory backdoors to stand up straight, speak in a clear voice and call for an outright ban.
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U.S. attorney general William Barr has said consumers should accept the risks that encryption backdoors pose to their personal cybersecurity to ensure law enforcement can access encrypted communications.
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US government officials have said that China could order its manufacturers to create backdoors for spying in their devices, although both Huawei and ZTE have denied the possibility.
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Mandating encryption backdoors for American technology companies is unlikely to improve the overall security environment, she argued, because encryption tools produced abroad would be unaffected by American legislation.
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There are many who call for backdoors to be built into encrypted communications technologies on the premise that law enforcement agencies would be the sole entities with access.
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To be clear, the FBI already makes heavy use of technology similar to GrayKey, and spends millions of dollars on equipment that cracks phones without using mandated backdoors.
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The U.S. considers Huawei a security risk because it believes the firm could build backdoors into its networking equipment to allow the Chinese government to spy on Americans.
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The fight with Huawei is less about bugs or backdoors than the three technologies that will drive the future of innovation: 200G, advanced computer chips, and artificial intelligence.
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Attorney General William Barr (and his predecessors) have repeatedly asked Apple (and Google, which also encrypts Android by default) to build backdoors into their devices and their software.
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"We endorse unified global standards that make installing backdoors a crime ... we want to sign such an agreement because we think it's the right thing to do," Ren said.
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While the report doesn't explicitly rule out encryption legislation, it lands firmly on the side of encryption policy critics, arguing that law enforcement backdoors pose a threat to security.
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The United States government has consistently lobbied for the creation of so-called backdoors in encryption schemes that would give law enforcement a way in to otherwise unreadable data.
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The NSA stole the company's source code with a vested interest in embedding backdoors into network hardware used by countries eager to avoid buying American products, the documents revealed.
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For instance, a play from 1613 called The Insatiate Countess features this remarkable dialogue between two female characters: Thais: But you mean they shall come in at the backdoors.
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Huawei has strongly denied these claims, with CEO Ren Zhengfei saying last week the company did not create so-called "backdoors" that would allow access to China's intelligence services.
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John Conyers, Jerrold Nadler, Zoe Lofgren, and Sheila Jackson Lee — contested the order on the grounds it was being used to undermine the legislative process around demanding encryption backdoors.
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While we should resist laws that would mandate the addition of backdoors, requested assistance does not constitute the creation of a backdoor and Apple should provide the requested assistance.
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In the end, if we force companies to build backdoors that the government can use to access encrypted data we wind up making our security problem worse, not better.
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This has sparked fears that Huawei could be asked by the Chinese government to incorporate "backdoors" into their equipment that would allow Beijing access, for spying or sabotage purposes.
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Law enforcement, security agencies and hackers don't need any special backdoors to be built; without encryption protecting local storage they can easily obtain the user's data from the hardware.
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The requests, which have increased since 2014, are ostensibly done to ensure foreign spy agencies have not hidden any "backdoors" that would allow them to burrow into Russian systems.
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But the tech industry and privacy advocates have resisted providing investigators with any guaranteed access, insisting that would create backdoors, or security vulnerabilities, that hackers and spies could exploit.
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The group, which Symantec has named "Orangeworm," has been installing backdoors in large international corporations based in the U.S., Europe and Asia that operate in the health-care sector.
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But the tech industry and privacy advocates have resisted providing investigators with any guaranteed access, insisting that would create "backdoors," or security vulnerabilities, that hackers and spies could exploit.
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Policymakers who understand those themes will reject reported legislation that would mandate backdoors in your technology, or otherwise force tech companies to ensure the FBI's access to everyone's communications.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Huawei denied on Tuesday a Bloomberg report saying that mobile operator Vodafone had found so-called hidden "backdoors" in software provided in 2011 by the Chinese company.
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" Responding to a question of whether backdoors are an avenue for law enforcement, Wainwright wrote in another tweet that "back doors not the solution but regulated front door access.
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In May, Facebook, Google, Apple, and Microsoft wrote a letter to to Barack Obama asking him to not seek encryption backdoors that would harm the privacy of their customers.
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Now, officials are getting specific, claiming the Chinese hardware manufacturer has maintained backdoors into some of the networks it builds, starting as early as 4G equipment sold in 2009.
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Now, officials are getting specific, claiming the Chinese hardware manufacturer has maintained backdoors into some of the networks it builds, starting as early as 4G equipment sold in 2699.
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Law enforcement advocates have demanded since the 1990s that creators of encrypted products install "backdoors" that would let law enforcement agencies unscramble the data after obtaining a search warrant.
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In a Monday meeting with reporters in New York, Nadella reiterated the company's opposition to encryption backdoors, but expressed tentative support for legal and technical solutions in the future.
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"Cybersecurity experts have repeatedly warned that encryption backdoors will have catastrophic effects on cybersecurity and make it much easier for hackers to gain access to Americans' sensitive data," Sen.
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Even if Chinese agents didn't surreptitiously plant backdoors into Hinkley Point, just having details about the facility and how the UK handles nuclear operations could be an intelligence resource.
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The Wall Street Journal reported earlier this week that US officials accused Chinese tech giant Huawei of spying through backdoors built in telecoms equipment intended for use by law enforcement.
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The argument runs that backdoors pose a broad security risk as even if they only intended to be used by law enforcement, they could be exploited by other malicious actors.
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He's not entirely wrong that a bunch of dullards in Congress could wake up one morning and suddenly say backdoors for the FBI are now the law of the land.
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Practically every Intel processor made in the last decade had backdoors that potentially let normal programs and software access what are supposed to be protected areas of a CPU's kernel.
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China's authoritarian rule notwithstanding, the country says that it doesn't have a single law that can compel a company to spy on its behalf or put backdoors in its products.
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Vodafone Italy discovered "hidden backdoors" in Huawei equipment that would have allowed the Chinese company to access users' home networks as well as Vodafone's Italian fixed-line network, reports Bloomberg.
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Huawei has faced a torrent of allegations in recent months, most of them coming from Washington, which fears the company works closely with Beijing to install backdoors in its equipment.
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Does the government secretly force companies to decrypt their customers' messages, build backdoors or hand over their source code so that law enforcement officials can pick through it for vulnerabilities?
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The US, UK, and three other governments have called on tech companies to build backdoors into their encrypted products, so that law enforcement will always be able to obtain access.
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Background: Huawei is accused of: Placing backdoors in equipment to allow China to spy on telecom networks, allowing it to steal billions in intellectual property to prop up domestic businesses.
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Huawei has previously denied that it creates backdoors for its equipment and often claims that suspicions of Huawei are just a "loser's attitude" because American tech companies can't compete fairly.
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House Homeland Security Chairman Michael McCaul (R-Texas) railed against encryption backdoors during a cybersecurity address on Thursday and discussed the growing threat of Russian involvement in the United States.
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The FBI's proposals for bypassing encryption with backdoors would also make internet security catastrophically worse, since it requires opening security holes that anyone, not just the "good guys," could exploit.
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It would also have prohibited the government from requiring companies to build security vulnerabilities into their products -- so-called backdoors in encryption -- to ensure the government could access suspects' communications.
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Of course, this isn't just an issue that touches privacy — building backdoors into products would weaken them against potential intrusions by foreign adversaries, for-profit hackers and everybody else, too.
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Do you think that governments around the world will start to be able to gain access to people's private encrypted communications and break into their encrypted devices because of backdoors?
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It would also have prohibited the government from requiring companies to build security vulnerabilities into their products — so-called backdoors in encryption — to ensure the government could access suspects' communications.
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Tech companies are constantly trying to develop more secure devices and platforms to win costumers&apos trust, and are therefore reticent to build backdoors that would easily crack encrypted services.
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The apps can be deleted, but only if users know to do that—and there are suspicions that they might leave behind backdoors into users' phones after they are gone.
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It can be expected that an unscrupulous company controlled by a foreign government would use this advantage to put backdoors into various systems, making the world's economy vulnerable to blackmail.
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The tech firm also reiterated its commitment to privacy in a separate statement regarding its data center, adding that "no backdoors will be created" into the company's systems, Reuters reported.
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Encryption backdoors would give law enforcement a way to bypass the algorithm that protects our data and sensitive information on smartphones and computers, and the issue has been litigated for decades.
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But that isn't going to happen: Germany and the Netherlands have both "publicly disavowed backdoors in encryption products," the study points out — and have more than 130 encryption products between them.
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Google has touted relativistic success in combating trojans and apps featuring backdoors, however, announcing in March that only 0.05 percent of Android devices downloaded malicious apps from Google Play last year.
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"But we cannot accept this happening without full security built in It is therefore essential that 5G infrastructures in the EU are resilient and fully secure from technical or legal backdoors."
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Earlier this week the European Parliament's civil liberties and justice committee put out a proposal aiming to the ePrivacy regulation that aims to safeguard end-to-end encryption from state backdoors.
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Ted Lieu (D-CA) has worked across party lines to develop and introduce the ENCRYPT Act, which would prohibit state governments from making laws to mandate backdoors or otherwise weaken encryption.
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Last month, lawmakers formed an encryption working group to address the use and regulation of encryption, and other members of Congress have already proposed legislation to introduce backdoors into encrypted communication.
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But the backdoors would only be voluntary to a point, because the governments say that they might mandate a way in if they "continue to encounter impediments" to accessing encrypted data.
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Plus, Axios' Joe Uchill notes: The App Store's software curation is an effective cybersecurity tool, since Apple checks for backdoors, surveillance, and privacy flaws, keeping the iOS software pool relatively safe.
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It also modified Windows 10 for China back in 2017 through a collaboration with state-owned China Electronics Technology Group to eliminate Beijing's fears of possible backdoors in the American software.
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The backdoors have reportedly been fixed, but the revelations are still bad news for Huawei as the Chinese tech giant tries to secure contracts to build 5G infrastructure around the world.
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But there's a problem with this scenario: a backdoor for law enforcement has the potential to be exploited by others, which is why, amongst security professionals, backdoors are so vehemently opposed.
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Government intelligence officers and politicians might think at least some backdoors are necessary to fight terrorism, but the reality is, no backdoor exists just for law enforcement or just for researchers.
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It comes at a time of growing trade and military tensions between Washington and Beijing, and amid worries by U.S. intelligence that Huawei's telecommunications equipment could contain "backdoors" for Chinese espionage.
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The bill could force tech companies to weaken their encryption In the US tech firms' evidence, they note that the Bill could potentially force companies to introduce backdoors in their encryption.
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Cook reportedly told White House officials last week they should "come out and say 'no backdoors'" during a recent meeting regarding counterterrorism issues held in San Jose, according to The Intercept.
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It wasn't the first time Huawei came under international fire: For years the US and its allies have been sounding the alarm on Huawei technologies having backdoors for Chinese government spying.
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However, tech firms have warned that putting "backdoors" into their systems to allow the authorities access would weaken security and make them more vulnerable to attacks from criminals or foreign states.
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Then-director James Comey claimed to have exhausted all avenues to break into a cell phone belonging to a suspected terrorist and used that issue to make the case for backdoors.
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As more and more of our lives and critical infrastructure go online it's likely that hackers and hacking-enabled terrorists will be able to do real, physical damage with encryption backdoors.
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It contains sections that some argue could be used to order technology companies to strip their customers' communications of encryption, or circumvent other digital protections in their products by engineering backdoors.
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Though much has been made of Sessions's confirmation hearing comments about implementing encryption backdoors (he's in favor), he will have to look at more than the ever-encroaching realm of surveillance.
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As the US and UK governments acknowledge, the CLOUD Act allows for companies to provide available information when they receive valid legal requests and does not require companies to build backdoors.
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We also took a look at the real reason the US is so afraid of Huawei creating potential backdoors: American intelligence agencies have a long history of doing that very thing.
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But ever since San Bernardino, Apple has made privacy — including no backdoors — one of its key corporate values as well as a selling point to distinguish its phones from Android phones.
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Huawei has long faced bipartisan suspicions in Washington that it funnels information garnered from its devices to the Chinese government and that it might install "backdoors" in its equipment for spying.
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The reason the FBI wants backdoors instead of hacking is so it can have something universal that can be used out in the open, said Chris Soghoian, the ACLU's principal technologist.
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The fiasco tainted all subsequent attempts at installing government backdoors, and by 1999, most government efforts to regulate cryptography had been abandoned, with barely a murmur from the FBI or the NSA.
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Officials looking to support and further law enforcement initiatives are using the clever catchphrase "responsible encryption" in an attempt to gingerly avoid debate while describing the need for backdoors into protected data.
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The UK government, for instance, set up and oversees a cybersecurity facility in England that is dedicated to finding backdoors in Huawei products and is yet to turn up much of note.
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In this example the only red line against enforced backdoors perforating iOS security would appear to be Apple's principles — and the wider interpretation of the letter of the law by the judiciary.
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Guo, who holds Huawei's rotating chairmanship, said that the company had never and would never allow any country to insert "backdoors" into its equipment, repeating claims it has made many times before.
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While Huawei founder Ren Zhengei insists his company will not install backdoors in its 5G products, experts say the company is required by law to do so if China's government demands it.
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Asked what evidence he had that Huawei had installed so-called backdoors - a deliberate coding vulnerability to grant access to intelligence services - Strayer pointed to a British government report released last July.
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I think some of the issues that we're dealing with now such as law enforcement hacking and government backdoors are issues because we in security are making progress at making secure systems.
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The case for backdoors: Criminals are doing bad stuff and when devices are strongly encrypted they can do it in what amounts to the perfect dark alley, completely hidden from public view.
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Earlier, U.S. officials had lobbied allies regarding the need to shut Chinese suppliers out of their networks citing the risk that Beijing's intelligence services could obtain covert access through so-called 'backdoors'.
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The bipartisan Secure Data Act would protect the most intimate communications of everyday Americans by barring federal agencies or courts from forcing tech companies to build backdoors into encrypted devices or services.
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Last December, networking giant Juniper revealed it had discovered two mysterious backdoors in the software running on its firewalls, which could effectively be exploited to decrypt protected data passing through its firewalls.
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Today, the increasing connectivity, advancing technology, and a proliferation of internet-powered devices make it impossible to isolate backdoors to be only useful to particular governments and their needs for investigative powers.
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The trade group Reform Government Surveillance released a statement arguing companies should not be "required to build in backdoors" but said its members were committed to helping law enforcement process legal orders.
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Earlier this year the NSA, FBI, and CIA all warned consumers not to buy electronics from the company over potential "backdoors" that would allow the Chinese government to spy on American users.
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We talk a lot about NSA surveillance, National Security Letters, warrant canaries, facial recognition technology, a police van disguised as a Google Maps vehicle, the war against encryption, and government-mandated backdoors.
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But cybersecurity experts — people who design secure communication systems and those who develop techniques to hack into those systems — universally believe that adding "backdoors" into encryption is a substantial national security threat.
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The report stops short of saying Huawei has purposely built backdoors into its products, and did not address the claims that the company conducts electronic surveillance on behalf of the Chinese government.
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It is concerned that Huawei will act as a Trojan horse for China&aposs spy agencies, planting "backdoors" into equipment it installs in Britain and collecting intelligence to relay back to Beijing.
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This has led to periodic attempts from law enforcement agencies and lawmakers to force platforms to create so-called "backdoors" that would allow them to snoop on the contents of those messages.
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The US government is once again reviving its campaign against strong encryption, demanding that tech companies build backdoors into smartphones and give law enforcement easy, universal access to the data inside them.
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Huawei has denied the company cooperates with China's intelligence services, but U.S. officials say the company can access mobile phone networks through "backdoors" and would be inclined to help the Chinese government.
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"This opens up the potential for exploiting information in these countries by having technological backdoors or other vulnerabilities which can then be used by the Chinese government to collect intelligence," he added.
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Since the start of the most recent encryption debate, lawful hacking has been pitched by many experts as a more desirable alternative to mandating that companies build government backdoors into their products.
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"The majority of the domains from the Flash FBI alert were associated with APT6 and one of their malware backdoors," Erica Eng, a threat intel analyst from FireEye, told Motherboard in an email.
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It's also tried to force companies like Apple to build surveillance backdoors into their devices, which could potentially weaken the security features available to normal users with no intent of breaking the law.
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On Wednesday, Republican lawmakers and presidential candidates came out strongly on the side of law enforcement, raising the possibility of another legislative effort to require tech companies to put "backdoors" in their products.
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Issues in Italy Bloomberg reported Tuesday that Vodafone (VOD) found "hidden backdoors" in Huawei software that could have given Huawei unauthorized access to one of its networks in Italy that provides internet service.
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If a handful of lawmakers in the US and abroad have their way, encrypted communication would either be outlawed or come pre-fitted with government-friendly backdoors—insert your friendly government's name here.
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Photo: APFederal authorities say they can request a U.S. tech company build surveillance backdoors into their products without any kind of court order, according to statements from July released this weekend, ZDNet reported.
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"China has not and will not require companies or individuals to collect or provide foreign countries' information for the Chinese government by installing backdoors or other actions that violate local laws," said Geng.
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The Department of Justice will end up finding itself playing a game of "whack-a-mole," working to compel every third-party encryption vendor within its jurisdiction to build backdoors into its products.
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The ruling bolstered critics who argued that the government's true aim in both cases was obtaining a legal precedent that would enable it to order tech companies to build backdoors into their products.
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Put a stop to the encryption backdoor debate Congress could also reassure Americans that it is committed to protecting their right to privacy by putting an end to the debate about encryption backdoors.
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Among other things, the edit would have prohibited the government from requiring companies to build security vulnerabilities into their products — so-called backdoors in encryption — to ensure the government could access suspects's communications.
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Should the LIBE committee gain EU parliament and Council support for banning state-mandated backdoors in encrypted services that would close down any efforts by individual Member States to push for decrypt laws.
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"Chinese law does not grant government the authority to compel telecommunications firms to install backdoors, listening devices, or engage in any behavior that might compromise the telecommunications equipment of other nations," it added.
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The US has long worried that Huawei could help the Chinese government spy by either building backdoors into its systems or handing over information about security bugs in its products before they're fixed.
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These backdoors would defeat the purpose of the encryption in the first place, because it would inherently make the phones more easily probed not just by cops, but by authoritarian governments, hackers, etc.
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As Engadget noted, instead of mandating backdoors, the arrangement may instead create an awkward situation in which companies are forced to turn over data that is "effectively unusable" because it cannot be decrypted.
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Security researchers warned Tuesday that some AMD processors contain "critical" vulnerabilities, as well as backdoors that the researchers claimed were put in place in systems outsourced to a third-party manufacturer by AMD.
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Despite swelling surveillance powers creeping across Europe, a European Parliament proposal is actually calling for a ban on "backdoors" that allow law enforcement agencies and governments into encrypted communications such as WhatsApp messages.
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But legislated backdoors make no sense for yet another reason: the criminals, terrorists, pedophiles and others whom governments hope to target would simply use encryption products made in countries that don't require mandatory portals.
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Last month, Christopher Wray, the FBI director appointed by President Trump, said he didn't "buy the claim that it's impossible," referring to the expert opinions of mathematicians that the "backdoors" idea represents magical thinking.
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He has also lambasted the smartphone-maker for not helping the FBI to crack a device belonging to a terrorist, which suggests he may push for "backdoors" in encryption software for governments to access.
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It is a secret power to force companies to build all manner of backdoors to all sorts of systems to intrude directly onto a product or service that you are using or have bought.
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But Democratic lawmakers in the past have worked to weaken encryption standards, demanding backdoors that they say can be used by law enforcement authorities to track terrorists, but also leave computers vulnerable to hackers.
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The U.S., however, has said that it is worried about the security risks posed by Huawei, alleging that the company's equipment may contain backdoors that could be used by the Chinese government for espionage.
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In New York, Apple argued that the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act, which requires crypto backdoors for telephone companies but not for "information providers," should supersede the All Writs Act in this instance.
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A bipartisan group of lawmakers is renewing a push for legislation to block states from mandating that technology companies build "backdoors" into devices they produce in order to allow law enforcement access to them.
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This is, presumably, the reason the DOJ and FBI would like backdoors: they provide more guaranteed access over a period of time, rather than catching up with each iteration of a phone cracking product.
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The comparison between nukes and crypto backdoors isn't a perfect one—nukes have a demonstrated ability to wreak mass destruction, while the ability to do violence with hacking remains mostly theoretical at this point.
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Internet privacy and freedom activists at places like the ACLU and the Electronic Frontier Foundation, however, think that if Yahoo really did comply and build government backdoors, the company was following an unconstitutional order.
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In an op-ed published today in Bloomberg, Hayden lays out how encryption backdoors wouldn't stop crime as there are always alternative messaging platforms, be they foreign or open-source, for criminals to utilize.
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British Home Secretary Amber Rudd called encrypted apps "completely unacceptable" on a BBC Sunday talk show in the wake of last week's Westminster attack — one of multiple official appearances to call for encryption backdoors.
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Others see the move as evidence of a possible solution to the broader debate: They say companies don't need to build "backdoors" to their products; the FBI simply needs to get better at hacking.
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"Huawei has never been asked by any government to build any backdoors or interrupt any networks, and we would never tolerate such behavior by any of our staff," the company said in a statement.
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U.S. intelligence agencies allege Huawei is linked to China's government and that its equipment could contain "backdoors" for use by spies, although no evidence has been produced publicly and the firm has denied the claims.
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Yet ironically, it's the U.S. and the U.K. — and more recently Australia — that have laws in place that can in fact compel a company to turn over data, or force a company to install backdoors.
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"The policy that we've had for the past 20 year says 'we don't touch encryption, we don't weaken it, we don't build backdoors, law enforcement has to find another way to access data,'" he said.
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"We endorse unified global standards that make installing backdoors a crime ... we want to sign such an agreement because we think it's the right thing to do," Ren said of the potential "no-spy" deal.
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But critics say that the bill's "broad authorities that would undermine cybersecurity and human rights, including the right to privacy" by forcing companies to build backdoors and hand over user data — even when it's encrypted.
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Today's news that hackers put backdoors into thousands of Asus computers using the company's own software update platform is a reminder of why supply-chain compromises are one of the scariest digital attacks out there.
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But, irrespective of who is actually behind the manufacturer of these backdoors, there is every chance that they could have been exploited by a number of different attackers, be those Russia, China, or anyone else.
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This is the point being repeated by companies like Apple, which has introduced robust hard-disk encryption for its devices and message services, while law enforcement agencies demand backdoors to be inserted into consumer products.
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Motherboard's investigation also found the fake iPhone X was loaded with backdoors and malicious apps, meaning that owning such a device likely resulted in any number of dubious middlemen gaining access to your personal information.
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"When the denominator is the 350 million Americans whose cell phones might become vulnerable if you introduced backdoors," said McAfee chief technology officer Steve Grobman, "it doesn't matter if the numerator is 1,000 or 7,000."
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Rather than silently removing the backdoors in a routine software patch sent to customers, Juniper said it was distributing the patch to eliminate "unauthorized code" that someone had placed in the source code of its software.
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Law enforcement agencies are required to obtain a warrant to force tech companies to build backdoors into their services, but no further judicial oversight would be necessary to intercept telecommunications once a warrant has been issued.
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Which is why closed source deployments of robust encryption still require users to trust the company making the secure messaging claims, given there's no way to externally verify their software does not contain government mandated backdoors.
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"The debate around backdoors is not going to go away, rather, its is almost certainly going to get more intense as we lurch toward a more authoritarian society," the hacker told Motherboard in an online chat.
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Security researchers and other critics of encryption backdoors have long said there's no mathematical or workable way to create a "secure backdoor" that isn't also susceptible to attack by hackers, and widely derided any backdoor effort.
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From Bloomberg:Vodafone asked Huawei to remove backdoors in home internet routers in 2011 and received assurances from the supplier that the issues were fixed, but further testing revealed that the security vulnerabilities remained, the documents show.
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If these backdoors are built, it will be a question of when, not if, a hacker will create his own exploit and use it to get his hands on an enterprise's, person's or government agency's data.
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More concerning, North Korea has expanded it cyber operations to target the critical infrastructure of the regime's adversaries, creating backdoors to networks vital to daily life, posing a persistent existential threat to commerce and national security.
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Former CIA and NSA head Michael Hayden, a House working group on encryption, nationally recognized encryption experts and others argue that so-called "backdoors" are hazardous for reasons that have nothing to do with civil liberties.
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Iranian cyber warriors, meanwhile, have been stealing passwords to and possibly setting up backdoors in the "Virtual Private Network" servers that countless American businesses rely upon to allow secured out-of-office access to their systems.
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"China has not and will not require companies or individuals to collect or provide foreign countries' information for the Chinese government by installing backdoors or other actions that violate local laws," Geng added, according to ABC.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Verizon Communications Inc supports "the availability of strong encryption with no backdoors," Chief Executive Lowell McAdam said on Wednesday, weighing in the showdown between Apple Inc and U.S. authorities over mobile device encryption.
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For example, the US National Security Agency reportedly engages in physical attacks called supply chain interdiction that involve intercepting legitimate shipments of computers or other devices, inserting backdoors into them, and delivering them to the intended recipients.
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The Obama administration abandoned a push last year for legislation that would force U.S. companies to build so-called "backdoors" into their products to allow investigators access to encrypted data, amid concerns from technologists and privacy advocates.
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And if they're being leant on to build and test backdoors to afford UK intelligence agencies access to their systems we may never know as there's no legal route for them to tell their users what's happening.
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Government pressure had already effectively barred China from the US market over concerns that it could build backdoors into its products or hand over information about security bugs that China could use to attack US telecom networks.
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Citing specifically his failure to "oppose government backdoors into Americans' personal devices, or to acknowledge facts about encryption," Wyden, a stalwart defender of privacy on the powerful Senate Intelligence Committee, voted not to confirm the former litigator.
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Giving a speech at MIT yesterday, Robert Hannigan called for the tech industry to help governments and security agencies find technical solutions to workaround encryption — although he claimed he is not advocating for backdoors to be mandated.
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As a staunch privacy and security advocate, I believe the inclusion of government-mandated backdoors in applications or operating systems that could allow unfettered access to personal data or activities are not only unwise but entirely misguided.
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The first step toward a productive dialogue is to find common ground: Security is an incredibly important concern, but law enforcement officials have to acknowledge that backdoors and key escrow proposals will make us all less safe.
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Meanwhile, many foreign governments have long been secretly working with black hat hackers to create unauthorized backdoors into the iPhone, usually without Apple's knowledge or control, seeking the ability to access documents of officials from rival governments.
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While those who argue that backdoors do not violate the Fourth Amendment may be technically correct to the extent that the government won't actually exploit the backdoor without a warrant, they are missing a more important point.
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The fact that the FBI, with the help of the outside vendor, was able to find a way to hack into Farook's iPhone within weeks, shows that this new push for backdoors may be doomed to fail.
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The company sent a letter refuting the first story, published in Bloomberg's Businessweek, which said China had planted hardware backdoors onto motherboards made by a company called SuperMicro used by multiple US companies, including Apple and Amazon.
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That incident prompted the Department of Justice's latest call for phone manufacturers to create encryption backdoors, despite ample evidence that hacking tools can break into the latest, most privacy conscious phones, like the iPhone 11 Pro Max.
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Again, look no further than the US: Reports in 2013 revealed that the US National Security Agency physically intercepted and added technical backdoors to enterprise IT equipment, like Cisco and Juniper Networks products, to enhance data access.
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That worries many in the tech industry who feel that they will be asked to compromise a core feature of their products by either assisting law enforcement or building "backdoors" into their products in the first place.
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It's not clear whether the proposed arrangement actually requires companies to build backdoors into their encrypted products, something that law enforcement and intelligence agencies have been demanding for years, but which has been resisted by tech firms.
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Although the military says the money is merely a subscription fee for emailed reports, online security specialists believe that money may have given Canada's military hackers access to backdoors and security flaws in commercial software and hardware.
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In this document, the FBI and partner investigators pinpointed backdoors driven by malicious software in technical equipment, and describe how Park allegedly colluded with his home government, even operating under the umbrella of a government-backed shell company.
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The move followed growing fears that its products could contain backdoors for the Chinese government, as well as a string of indictments charging Huawei with misleading banks about violating Iran sanctions and stealing intellectual property from T-Mobile.
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Sooner or later, companies located in countries beyond the U.S. Department of Justice's legal jurisdiction will develop and sell their own encryption tools – companies that the U.S. Department of Justice will be unable to compel to install backdoors.
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The reviews, conducted in secure facilities known as "clean rooms" by Russian companies with expertise in technology testing, are required by Russian defense agencies for the stated purpose of ensuring no hidden "backdoors" exist in foreign-made software.
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"I don't think requiring backdoors with encryption is either going to be an effective way to increase security or is really the right thing to do for just the direction that the world is going to," he continued.
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The aim of the new coalition is to build trustworthy chip designs for use in data centers, storage and computer peripherals, which are both open and transparent, allowing anyone to inspect the hardware for security vulnerabilities and backdoors.
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Digital rights activist and companies, including Facebook, have also pushed back on government requests for law enforcement backdoors into encrypted communications, arguing that creating them would compromise user privacy and give authoritarian-style surveillance powers to the government.
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Since Apple is not a utility, and because Congress declined to force companies like Apple to build "backdoors" into their products, Apple said it should not be forced to help the government hack into the San Bernardino iPhone.
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The embattled Chinese smartphone maker was blacklisted by the Trump administration last month, as the US government claims that the company acts as a proxy for the Chinese government, providing it with technological "backdoors" through which to spy.
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The Trump administration has had an ongoing battle with the telecom giant amid its growing trade war with China, accusing the tech company and smartphone manufacturer of providing backdoors in its technology for use by Chinese intelligence firms.
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Why it matters: The request marks the latest twist in a long-running debate over encryption, with some arguing for government backdoors and others maintaining that there is no way to provide them without compromising security and privacy.
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That may raise the hackles of privacy experts and private companies, given the friction between what private companies wish to protect and what governments wish were exposed — through things like backdoors — but Manfra says close collaboration is critical.
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"We agree with the intention of the Government's policy to seek access to protected communications and data when required by a warrant, while not requiring encryption keys to be compromised or backdoors installed on to systems," the report reads.
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Albeit, that position is looking rather more precarious now, if lawmakers are going to legislate that companies be required to go so far as be forced to rewrite their code to workaround their own security features — aka 'hello backdoors'.
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We chatted about Internet of Things security, backdoors in Chinese manufactured goods, and his undying distaste for "skids", or script kiddies, unskilled people who use scripts or programs to attack computers but lack the knowledge to write their own.
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Photo: GettyOne US senator is calling out the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation for pushing the moronic notion that there is somehow a good way to add backdoors to encryption used to protect devices like Apple's iPhone.
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"Governments have been frothing at the mouth hoping for an opportunity to pressure companies like Apple into building backdoors into their products to enable more sweeping surveillance," Evan Greer, Fight for the Future's campaign director, said in a statement.
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The FBI and other law enforcement agencies have been clamoring for software backdoors and weakened encryption for years, despite the fact that technology experts, and even former intelligence officials, agree that we're all safer with strong encryption than without.
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"We're currently talking with different governments about how we could help them create their own OS," added Saarnio, noting that the motivation is for them to have control and full visibility into software to be reassured there's no backdoors.
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This so-called "technical capability notice" is the most controversial part of the law, which critics fear will allow the Australian government to essentially mandate backdoors to encryption software like secure messaging apps, or mobile devices like the iPhone.
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One other issue we face as consumers is that there are too many programs and apps that promise privacy or user control, but in reality, they all have backdoors that are prone to hacks, data retrieval, or software bugs.
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Huawei has denied accusations that its technology contains backdoors allowing access by Chinese intelligence, but it was reported last month that President Trump was considering an executive order banning all Huawei and ZTE products from the U.S. More here.
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UK MINISTER ATTACKS TECH OVER ENCRYPTION: British Home Secretary Amber Rudd called encrypted apps "completely unacceptable" on a BBC Sunday talk show in the wake of last week's Westminster attack -- one of multiple officials to call for encryption backdoors.
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The news comes as The New York Times reports that the Justice Department and FBI have renewed their efforts to force tech companies to implement encryption backdoors into consumer products, meaning authorities could more reliably gain access to devices.
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You've taken other Chinese tech companies, not for particular surveillance reasons, but for belief that they have backdoors for the Chinese government, you put Huawei on the entities list, meaning that Huawei can no longer work with US companies.
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And while some Obama advisers worried about then-FBI Director James Comey's crusade against warrant-proof encryption, there is no sign that Trump aides have sought to restrain Barr or FBI chief Christopher Wray in their demands for backdoors.
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"You have essentially indicated that companies should be making their products with backdoors in order for you all to do your job," Wyden said, repeating his request for Wray to disclose the experts he has consulted on the issue.
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"We are willing to sign no-spy agreements with governments, including the UK government, to commit ourselves to making our equipment meet the no-spy, no-backdoors standard," Huawei chairman Liang Hua told reporters in London via an interpreter.
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It first suggests that the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act, which governs crypto backdoors for telecom companies, should supersede the All Writs Act, which allows courts to compel third parties to assist in criminal cases unless covered by another law.
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"Germany proposed the establishment of a unified global convention that would bar all equipment vendors from installing backdoors, and require them to sign a no-spy agreement," he said, referring to a potential "no spy" deal between Berlin and Beijing.
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That means an equipment maker may be able to install lines of code, called "backdoors," that let it access what's going on inside the network — such as monitoring data transfers, tracking locations of cell phone users, or eavesdropping on conversations.
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Even the Obama administration's declaration that it was siding with tech companies against allowing encryption backdoors was made on the grounds of national security, rather than out of concern for the civil liberties and privacy rights of the American public.
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But, as FT points out, it would also make it easier for Russian security services to conduct surveillance while also forcing Western internet companies to comply with the Russian mandate that all tech companies install automatic backdoors for the secret service.
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So one likely consequence of the attack of May 12th is that it will make it harder for governments to insist on firms installing "backdoors" in their encryption software, to permit spooks and police access if they believe they need it.
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The executive order, the National Defense Authorization Act also tells us that going forward, prospectively, we need to make sure that we're not allowing some of this Huawei and Chinese infrastructure that could have backdoors and their software built into it.
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Although attribution is typically difficult, the researchers found that systems hit by LoJax also contained other hacking tools known to used by Fancy Bear, including backdoors and proxy tools used for funneling network traffic to and from the hackers' servers.
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"The only way of making a system secure against adversaries who want to harm us is by designing it such that there are no known flaws or backdoors whatsoever, and by fixing it if any flaws are subsequently discovered," he argues.
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"If this news report is accurate, the potential infiltration of Chinese backdoors could provide a foothold for adversaries and competitors to engage in commercial espionage and launch destructive cyber attacks," the senators said in their letter, which was seen by Reuters.
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Even still, the MPAA won its cases largely because of a judge's decision that code did not constitute protected speech—it's an issue that remains unresolved and recently cropped up again when the FBI started demanding backdoors to locked Apple products.
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Many viruses and worms operate more or less autonomously, harvesting information or spamming your contacts; unless a third party is directing their actions (as in ransomware or botnets), they don't count as backdoors — since there's nowhere to go through it.
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Although Australian lawmakers have claimed that the bill's intentions are not to weaken encryption or compel backdoors, Apple's letter said the "the breadth and vagueness of the bill's authorities, coupled with ill-defined restrictions" leaves the bill's meaning open to interpretation.
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Cryptographers and privacy advocates—who have long been staunch opponents of encryption backdoors on public safety and human rights grounds—warn that the legislation poses serious risks, and will have real consequences that reverberate far beyond the land down under.
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Telecom carriers have also been notably reluctant to get involved; Verizon is unlikely to file a friend of the court brief, despite comments from its CEO that the company supports encryption with no backdoors, sources familiar with the matter said.
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In 2012, it was revealed the NSA had made a program called "Shotgiant" that created backdoors into Huawei-made networking equipment in order to monitor communications around the world and find ties between the Chinese company and China's People's Liberation Army.
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This week, the company's products, which include both phones and network gear, were banned from Taiwanese government systems, the South China Morning Post reported, over concerns that Huawei could build backdoors into its products on behalf of the Chinese government.
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In an unexpectedly adversarial hearing on Tuesday, the members of the House Judiciary Committee grilled FBI Director James Comey on encryption backdoors, privacy, the All Writs Act, and even highly technical details about the iPhone 5c, for over an hour.
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The law allows Australian police and the intelligence agencies wide-reaching powers to issue "technical notices" — essentially forcing companies and even websites operating in Australia to help the government undermine encryption or insert backdoors at the behest of the government.
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The criticisms of backdoors back then were very much the same as those being argued today: that any avenue of access by a third party is going to open a doorway for hackers, and generally decrease the security of users' devices.
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With calls for backdoors rooted in the idea that the amount of data available to law enforcement is declining, it is worth noting that rather than going dark, the majority of tech companies remain built around collecting and monetizing user data.
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Lieu, one of the few computer experts in Congress, has argued that the push to mandate encryption backdoors is "technologically stupid," pointing out that there's no way to prevent bad guys from exploiting this built-in weakness for their own ends.
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NEW YORK, Feb 24 (Reuters) - Verizon Communications Inc supports "the availability of strong encryption with no backdoors," Chief Executive Lowell McAdam said on Wednesday in response to the legal showdown between Apple Inc and U.S. law enforcement over mobile device encryption.
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"The shadow created by the problem called going dark continues to fall across more and more of our work," Comey said, blaming the "ubiquitous default full disk encryption on devices," while at the same time saying he doesn't want backdoors.
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As tech firms like Huawei become ever more indispensable across the globe, American leaders have, not unreasonably, become possessed by the fear that Chinese technology will offer a ruthless Beijing many "backdoors" into Western affairs of state, security, and commerce.
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Among the discussed risks in this non-public report are the insertion of concealed hardware, software or flaws into 5G networks; and the risk of uncontrolled software updates, backdoors or undocumented testing features left in the production version of networking products.
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The revelations showed that the NSA had backdoors into the databases of many of Silicon Valley's largest companies, that it was surveilling world leaders and American allies, and that the U.S. government's surveillance state had become ever present in American life.
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I've seen quite a few people suggest today that the FBI (which favors encryption backdoors) has likely chosen this case as a precedent-setter precisely because it's so hard to argue for the rights of the subject in the case.
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The Chinese tech giant is facing continued pressure on the U.S. which has accused it of being a national security risk, saying that it could build backdoors into its networking equipment to allow the Chinese government to spy on Americans.
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If you are a leaker or trying to get documents or information to the press anonymously, check out the Secure Drop Directory, which lists backdoors (only available on the dark web) to leak information to a variety of news organizations.
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Last year the allied "Five Eyes" intelligence-sharing countries (the US, the UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand) united in pushing for encrypted services to build "safeguards" for law enforcement — though they stopped short of calling for deliberate security vulnerabilities known as backdoors.
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In the process, he offers a primer in everything from the history of the Clipper Chip to car hacking (featuring a cameo from none other than WIRED's Jeep hacking video) to a rundown of strong arguments against mandating backdoors in encrypted communications.
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When tech giant Juniper Networks made the startling announcement last month that it had uncovered two mysterious backdoors embedded in software running on some of its firewalls, certain people in the security community praised the company for being honest about its discovery.
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This malicious code was particularly concerning because one of the backdoors, which had gone undetected in the software since 2012, could be exploited for the purposes of decrypting protected data passing through the VPN, or virtual private network, in Juniper NetScreen firewalls.
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Some privacy advocates, meanwhile, pointed to the story as evidence that law enforcement backdoors into technology can be exploited far too easily by criminals or other nations — a dig at the Justice Department, which is pushing for similar special access to encrypted communications.
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I take it in the sense of having had national security folks who have specifically told me how they think about it, what our exposure is, what our risks are, and how seriously they take the possibility of backdoors in our network.
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The bill also calls for stronger search warrants and "modern warrants for the digital age," which could mean warrants that require companies to bypass encryption or use backdoors and other methods to provide government agencies easier access to on-device and cloud data.
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The bill, in short, grants Australian police greater powers to issue "technical notices" — a nice way of forcing companies — even websites — operating in Australia to help the government hack, implant malware, undermine encryption or insert backdoors at the behest of the government.
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A bill that would require our sensitive data that is stored on government servers to be encrypted, or one that explicitly bans forcing tech companies to create dangerous encryption backdoors for law enforcement, wold be much more useful than this proposed commission.
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"They say, 'we agree that we're not going to put in backdoors or undermine encryption, but we do reserve the right to compel companies to assist us in getting all the data,'" says Danny O'Brien, international director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
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In one of the most curious details from the new Bloomberg report, Vodafone requested that one of the backdoors for its telnet service be removed but Huawei reportedly refused:Vodafone said Huawei then refused to fully remove the backdoor, citing a manufacturing requirement.
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"Hidden 'backdoors' to our networks in routers, switches, and other network equipment can allow hostile foreign powers to inject viruses and other malware, steal Americans' private data, spy on U.S. businesses, and more," said FCC Chairman Ajit Pai, who introduced the proposal.
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In addition to retroactively protecting manufacturers, developers, and sellers of encrypted products from having to build encryption backdoors in their products, it also forbids the physical search of those products by any agency, unless authorized under the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act.
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In addition to his work with Raskin, Jordan has teamed with Lieu, a vocal Trump critic, on another bill that would bar states from forcing Apple and other tech companies to build "backdoors" in their devices so law enforcement can access them.
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Washington effectively bans carriers from using the company's equipment in US networks and has long warned that Huawei could build backdoors into its products that could be accessed by the Chinese government, something the company denies it has done or would do.
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"It doesn't allow the Chinese government to willy nilly put backdoors in products," said Andy Purdy, chief security officer for Huawei in the US. In addressing the broader concerns, Purdy pointed to the extensive security measures they take to safeguard their clients' system.
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Cook made it clear that Apple cooperates and assists with requests wherever possible, but they have never given access to end-to-end encrypted data, because they can't technically do so and they have fought every request for digital backdoors into secure hardware and software.
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In remarks to Die Zeit weekly, Bavarian Economy Minister Ilse Aigner stuck to the CSU demand for an annual cap of 200,000 immigrants, preventing any recurrence of the 2015 crisis, "so that no backdoors stay open and so there is no lack of clarity".
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While the UK government claims it's not asking for device makers and service providers to create backdoors or hand over encryption keys, it has also explicitly said the law will require comms providers to provide data in a legible form when served with a warrant.
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And this issue over whether the government can compel private companies to offer backdoors to its products in the name of national security is going to be something we discuss long after the public forgets about the newest features in the 4-inch iPhone.
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A trade war with China and the deployment of 5G infrastructure around the world has placed Huawei firmly in the crosshairs of an administration that fears Chinese dominance in the tech sector and the potential for its intelligence services to install backdoors into networking equipment.
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Vodafone also identified backdoors in parts of its fixed-access network known as optical service nodes, which are responsible for transporting internet traffic over optical fibers, and other parts called broadband network gateways, which handle subscriber authentication and access to the internet, the people said.
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The fake network gives it the ability to tamper with many aspects of web browsing and web browsers, including installing backdoors in web browsers and stealing data websites stored on a computer — called cookies — that would give an attacker access to sites the user visits.
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Opponents argue that the bill will effectively require tech companies and platforms like WhatsApp and Facebook to build "vulnerabilities" or "backdoors" into their own products and services so government agencies can access the private data of their users on-demand — with virtually no judicial oversight.
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The speech rankled online civil libertarians, who have argued for years that if tech companies are forced to build exceptions or backdoors into encryption communications systems, it will creates a hole that not just law enforcement, but also hackers and malicious governments could exploit.
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A Democratic congressman who wants to outlaw the use of federal funds for government "backdoors" into commercial devices is pushing back on House leadership for refusing to allow the amendment to come up for a vote as part of the annual defense authorization bill.
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Critics of DNS over HTTPS do recognize the irony of pushing for less encryption out of a desire to protect people when the security and cryptography communities overall take a hard line against law enforcement on the value of encrypted communication platforms free of backdoors.
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McNamee's warning about smartphone backdoors creating a slippery slope comes two days after President Donald Trump slammed Apple for refusing to help the FBI to unlock the iPhones of the suspected shooter at Naval Air Station Pensacola that left three Americans dead last month.
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Elsewhere, the Commissions' technology policy chief recently tweeted a confirmation he's still against the idea of mandating backdoors and weakening encryption — although in his earlier comments, from November he also conceded the issue is not so black and white where the interests of law enforcement are concerned.
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"Last month, we talked to the German Interior Ministry and said that we were ready to sign a no-spy agreement with the German government and to promise that Huawei will not install any backdoors in the networks," Wirtschaftswoche quoted Huawei Chief Executive Ren Zhengfei as saying.
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South Korean mobile maker LG Electronics Inc said it takes personal privacy and security very seriously, but declined to say whether it had ever worked with any government to insert so-called "backdoors" into its products or whether it had ever been asked to unlock a smartphone.
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We spoke to Professor Hellman at his home on Stanford University's campus, discussing the work that led to the award, his fight for computer privacy and the current legal feud between Apple Computer and the Federal Bureau of Investigation over backdoors into the iOS mobile operating system.
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And, in brief, while backdoors can pose a security risk to all of a product's users by introducing new vulnerabilities, hacking is about taking advantage of already existing problems in a program or operating system (What happens if those exploits become public is another issue altogether).
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But if the order stands, "Apple and other technology companies could be ordered to build backdoors -- essentially defects -- into other devices, rendering them insecure and vulnerable to attack by law enforcement and by others as well," said Greg Nojeim of the Center for Democracy and Technology.
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And yet, if the FBI couldn't convince congress to go for backdoors in encryption before, let alone an expansion in CALEA's powers, both Butler and Gidari are skeptical the agency could do so now, even with the added weight of San Bernardino and the Apple debate.
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Congress is currently considering several bills regarding encryption, including the Warner-McCaul bill that would form a commission of security experts and law enforcement officials to make cybersecurity recommendations and the Burr-Feinstein "Compliance with Court Orders Act of 2016" that would mandate backdoors in encryption.
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While he alludes to some mystical un-struck balance, it sounds unlikely that he either understands the conversation around or is particularly concerned by the all-or-nothing proposition of requiring tech companies to create backdoors into their products that would allow the government to bypass encryption.
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Congress has long been voicing its concerns about Huawei, and earlier this year the NSA, FBI and CIA all warned consumers not to buy electronics from the company over over potential "backdoors" in the products that would allow the Chinese government to spy on U.S. users.
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"American tech with such mandated encryption backdoors will end up on other countries' banned software lists, regarded much like Huawei is in the U.S.," she said, referring to the Chinese telecom firm that officials have accused of aiding Chinese spying and banned from many U.S. networks.
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According to the WSJ report, concerns raised by the new EU analysis include: the insertion of concealed hardware, software or flaws into the 5G network; or the risk of uncontrolled software updates, backdoors or undocumented testing features left in the production version of the networking products.
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But after AU staff discovered strange server activity between midnight and 2am local time in January 2017, subsequent investigation and sweeps of the building found that Chinese engineers left backdoors in computer servers allowing access to "all sensitive content" as well as left recording devices in desks and walls.
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While the vulnerability that enables GrayKey could ostensibly be discovered and patched out of existence at any time, a Saturday report in the New York Times indicated that federal law enforcement are preparing to renew their efforts to force tech companies to build backdoors into products anyhow.[Motherboard]
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The UK's decision to partially include Huawei in its 5G network came as a massive blow to the Trump administration, which has been lobbying its allies to freeze Huawei out of their 5G equipment entirely on the grounds that the company provides technological "backdoors" for Chinese government espionage.
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The problem of law enforcement and encryption is mostly talked about in vague terms of "backdoors" and "a new Manhattan Project", but here's something concrete: a District Court Judge just ordered Apple to help the FBI access files on one of the iPhones of the San Bernardino shooters.
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It's not clear whether Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella plans to issue a further statement to directly support Apple's strong opposition to iPhone backdoors, but Microsoft's chief legal officer, Brad Smith, shared the Reform Government Surveillance statement on Twitter (which Nadella retweeted) — suggesting this is all we'll hear from Redmond.
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These costs would be incurred in spite of the fact that encryption backdoors would fail to solve the FBI's "Going Dark" problem since anyone who wanted to could access unbreakable encryption from any one of the hundreds of open-source or foreign developed products available on the internet.
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But while the Department of Justice has vowed to continue its fight to provide backdoors for law enforcement, other parts of the US government have actively funded the development of these very encryption systems—including some of the same members of Congress currently pushing for legislation to weaken them.
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And making Signal friendlier to normal people only becomes more important as Silicon Valley companies come under increasing pressure from governments to create encryption backdoors for law enforcement, and as Facebook hints that its own ambitious end-to-end encryption plans are still years away from coming to fruition.
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Much of what makes encryption such a hard policy problem is that it boils down to a lesser-of-two-evils choice: Do we want more criminals using encryption to get away with crimes, or more bad actors exploiting the vulnerabilities made possible by creating "backdoors" for law enforcement?
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In July, top intelligence and law enforcement officials, including Coats, were asked during a hearing before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) whether they believed Section 702's blanket authorization allowed the government to compel US tech companies to build so-called "backdoors" into encrypted consumer products, such as iPhones.
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If she decides in favor of the government, however, this case will set a very serious precedent that will encourage agencies to pursue court orders to compel tech companies to cooperate, even if that cooperation means forcing companies to create security backdoors that undermine the purpose of the products they create.
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However, even if data analytics and intelligence sharing mechanisms could be improved, the existence of mass data collection and the ongoing push for encryption backdoors imply that it is technically possible to exploit global networks en masse without creating the attack entry points accessible to others – criminals or foreign intelligence.
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He also alleges that she left ovens on while she and their son were at home asleep; backdoors were left open at night for their dogs to go in and out; and administered a double dose of their son's medication, which caused him to vomit in the middle of the night.
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At the Senate hearing, the Facebook and Apple representatives and independent researchers all testified that adding backdoors to the encryption schemes in their services would undermine the utility and efficacy of the protections and expose all of their users to threats from nation-state hackers, criminals, or other rogue actors.
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According to the Wall Street Journal, while it would be easy for Huawei and ZTE to build backdoors capable into their networking equipment, it would be very difficult for them to build in anything more complicated than a kill switch—such as surveillance systems—without tipping off wireless carriers and internet service providers.
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A researcher showed methods for unlocking "high security" consumer electronic safes without leaving any evidence of the attack, Oracle's payment system Micros (which is used at roughly 330,000 cash registers around the world) was hacked, and a Windows vulnerability served as a reminder of why putting backdoors in secure processes doesn't make sense.
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The most high-profile fight over encryption to date has involved Apple and the FBI—the latter of which has insisted it needs the power to compel tech companies to help them bypass security on devices like terrorists' iPhones, despite the fact the backdoors could be exploited by anyone with knowledge of them.
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On the same day that WhatsApp was making its case in the Madras high court, United States Attorney General William Barr demanded that tech firms put backdoors into their encrypted products because encryption "seriously degrades" law enforcement's ability to "detect and prevent a crime before it occurs," and makes prosecution more difficult.
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WhatsApp) would not be able to hand over de-encrypted data (and would therefore, at least technically, be falling outside the law) — and thus whether or not it will try to use the Technical Capability Notices to force companies not to use E2E encryption, or else build in backdoors (as critics have warned).
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The bill's official discussion draft is substantively identical to the leaked version, and would force companies to provide law enforcement with access to encrypted communications when they are compelled by a court—effectively mandating the creation of backdoors in their products and imposing a ban on end-to-end encrypted communications apps.
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"China has not and will not demand companies or individuals use methods that run counter to local laws or via installing 'backdoors' to collect or provide the Chinese government with data, information or intelligence from home or abroad," the Chinese foreign ministry said in a statement in response to questions from Reuters.
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This malware can take several forms, including backdoors, which give a remote user access to and control over a device, and click fraud apps, which force a device to go to a website with pay-per-click ads, creating false views that the website is then paid for by the ad company.
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READ: Huawei's new smartphone is 'practically useless' thanks to Trump's security ban The U.S. government has yet to provide any concrete evidence showing that Huawei is allowing the Chinese government to build backdoors into its equipment in order to spy on countries around the globe — allegations Huawei has continuously and strenuously denied.
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The letter, which was first reported by the Wall Street Journal, echoes a steady drumbeat of warnings by top US officials, including Vice President Mike Pence, who flagged Huawei's alleged connections to Chinese intelligence and its ability to compromise national security by selling equipment with "backdoors" that could allow for unauthorized surveillance.
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Although the US has long accused Huawei of spying for the Chinese government, this was the first time it gave a specific detail about how it thinks the company does this, saying it had built equipment capable of tapping into "lawful interception interfaces," backdoors purposefully left in telecoms equipment so it can gain access.
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Furthermore, concerns about the trustworthiness of these Chinese companies seems hugely hypocritical when you consider that the FBI asked Apple to create a special government-only backdoor into iOS—and continues to push the need for encryption backdoors—which is the exact thing they are worried about the People's Republic doing with Apple's Chinese competitors.
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While domestic surveillance legislation passed at the end of last year has been widely interpreted as giving security agencies powers to place requirements on companies not to use e2e encryption and/or to require comms services providers to build in backdoors so they can provide access to decrypted data when handed a state warrant.
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"I am pleased that our group was able to come together on a bipartisan basis to affirmatively state once and for all: requiring companies to weaken devices with 'backdoors' means we open up innocent Americans to the bad actors who would love easier access to our citizens' personal information," said DelBene in a statement.
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In December, everyone was starkly reminded of the dangers posed by backdoors in security products: Juniper Networks, a massive company that creates popular networking equipment, found "unauthorized" code in its ScreenOS software which would allow an attacker to take total control of Juniper NetScreen firewalls, or even, with enough resources, passively decrypt VPN traffic.
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"If William Barr and Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpDemocrats request testimony from Trump's former Russia adviser Trump adviser: 'He should stop saying things that are untrue' US moves British ISIS suspects from Syria amid Turkish invasion MORE succeed in putting backdoors into American encryption, every single American will be less safe," Wyden said in a statement.
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A massive security concern is what the legislation implies for encryption — given it hands U.K. authorities the power to require a company to remove encryption, or limit the rollout of end-to-end encryption on a future service, raising the specter of backdoors damaging trust in U.K. companies — as well as risking the security of user data.
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U.S. officials declined to say whether other countries have received or would receive similar warnings... [Grenell] noted that the code running on 5G equipment would need frequent updates and was so complex that the potential for so-called backdoors and other system vulnerabilities couldn't be ruled out even if Huawei were to let regulators regularly inspect its software.
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Today Kamkar released the schematics and code for a proof-of-concept device he calls PoisonTap: a tiny USB dongle that, whether plugged into a locked or unlocked PC, installs a set of web-based backdoors that in many cases allow an attacker to gain access to the victim's online accounts, corporate intranet sites, or even their router.
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The committee "is absolutely right to oppose encryption backdoors and to tell the UK government it shouldn't try to get away with using 'targeted' surveillance to monitor large groups of people who have no meaningful connection to any wrongdoing," said Sarah St. Vincent, a human rights and surveillance legal fellow at digital rights advocate Center for Democracy & Technology.
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Claiming that the first Apple heard of the order was via media reports, he pointed out this order could open the floor for other U.S. states to apply for similar 'backdoors' which would not only increase the risk of bad operators accessing such software, but would make the aforementioned data on individuals' devices effectively available on order for courts and judges.
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Mr. Ren: First, Mr. Yang Jiechi, a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, made a statement at the Munich Security Conference that the Chinese government always requires Chinese firms to abide by international rules and laws and regulations of the country where they operate, and that China has no law requiring companies to install backdoors or collect foreign intelligence.
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Privacy advocate Cindy Cohn, executive director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, listed some of the methods the government may use when encryption blocks access to information shared by suspects: They install key loggers on devices to discover passwords, stop computers on their way to being shipped and install backdoors or send fake messages masquerading as popular services like Facebook to trick suspects to divulging passwords.
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Kaspersky maintains its desire to "certifiably refute the false accusations" made in The New York Times story: "Kaspersky Lab has never helped, nor will help, for any government in the world with its cyberespionage efforts, and contrary to erroneous reports, Kaspersky Lab software does not contain any undeclared capabilities such as backdoors as that would be illegal and unethical," the company said in a statement to TechCrunch.
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Based on interviews with law enforcement, academics, telecommunications companies and members of the financial community, the committee reiterated many of the same arguments that can still be heard today: that encryption is making law enforcement's job harder; that backdoors built into encryption mechanisms for government use could just as easily be used by criminals; and that undermining encryption would compromise the security of financial systems too.
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The top lawmakers on the powerful committee, Graham and ranking member Dianne FeinsteinDianne Emiel FeinsteinSenate confirms Trump's 50th circuit judge, despite 'not qualified' rating Inspector general testifies on FBI failures: Five takeaways Pelosi endorses Christy Smith in bid to replace Katie Hill MORE (D-Calif.), threatened to work up legislation that would force the companies to create "backdoors" into encrypted messaging for law enforcement.
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The top lawmakers on the powerful committee, Graham and ranking member Dianne FeinsteinDianne Emiel FeinsteinSenate confirms Trump's 85033th circuit judge, despite 'not qualified' rating Inspector general testifies on FBI failures: Five takeaways Pelosi endorses Christy Smith in bid to replace Katie Hill MORE (D-Calif.), threatened to work up legislation that would force the companies to create "backdoors" into encrypted messaging for law enforcement.
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Instead, this kind of rhetoric looks an awful lot like a pretext to giving the U.S.' already powerful national security apparatus even more leverage over the online world in which Americans now do much of their daily basis—something which should be slightly concerning to anyone worried about whether, say, Russia suddenly becomes an excuse for the government to demand encryption backdoors or extensive surveillance of social media.
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Major tech companies, such as Apple and Facebook, agree and have been working to resist the Australian legislation and a similar bill in the UK. Image: Bryce Durbin/TechCrunch Image: Bryce Durbin/TechCrunch Newly created encryption backdoors and work-arounds will become the target of criminals, hackers, and hostile nation states, offering new opportunities for data compromise and attack through the newly created tools and the flawed code that inevitably accompanies some of them.
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A pair of Democratic lawmakers sent a letter to Attorney General William BarrWilliam Pelham BarrTrump wanted Barr to say publicly that the Ukraine phone call was not illegal: report Administration officials say election security is a 'top priority' ahead of 2020 FBI Director: 'I don't know' if Giuliani has security clearance MORE on Thursday urging him to stop government requests for encryption backdoors, which allow the government to obtain certain user information from tech companies. Sen.
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Kaspersky Lab reiterates its willingness to work alongside U.S. authorities to address any concerns they may have about its products as well as its systems, and respectfully requests any relevant, verifiable information that would help the company in its own investigation to certifiably refute the false accusations.... Kaspersky Lab has never helped, nor will help, for any government in the world with its cyberespionage efforts, and contrary to erroneous reports, Kaspersky Lab software does not contain any undeclared capabilities such as backdoors as that would be illegal and unethical.
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Consider: If Not for Twitter, We'd Only Know What Elon Musk Was Up to After He Built a Giant Slingshot That Shoots Contractors Into SpaceFBI Backdoors Are Like Mullets, That's Where the Party Happens10 Friendly Emails Asking Me to Insert Product Links Into Articles for Money That I'd Eagerly Reply to If I Was in Debt to My Coke GuySafety Win: Apple's New Headquarters Is Teaching People to Look Where They're GoingAll of us here at Gizmodo politely hope you take our ideas into consideration, and feel very warm and fuzzy that Gawker may yet find a loving forever home.
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