European Commission Pushing For Encryption Backdoors
The debate surrounding encryption backdoors has been raging on for years with governments (that typically don’t really understand the things they are pushing for) requesting all software have government ‘secured’ backdoor keys.
This is now getting more serious in Europe with the EC actually forcing the issue (in a passive aggressive kind of way for now) and promising legislation to back it up within 2 years or so.
The issue is always the same, if the government has a universal backdoor key for an app (let’s say for example Whatsapp) and they get hacked, and all the bad guys get hold of this Whatsapp universal decryption key – how many people do you think are going to die? Yah, a lot.
