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Don't be talking about possible scenarios about Government or Companies. What comes to mind is the story about the last person to be taken away by the Thought Control Police, and he asks "Why is nobody speaking out on my behalf". Most of the comments didn't say it was a bad thing; we just know this is a cover-up.
In principle it's fine. Terrorists do use and prefer Windows, and sophisticated encryption is becoming easier than ever even for the brainwashed morons to use effectively. That's why I said it was like giving the keys to a donut shop to the cops.
In principle it's nice for the good guys to have a shortcut to catch a crook who sneaks in to the locked store. In practice though Joined Feb 18, Messages 6, Maybe there is but at the same time Windows is deployed across the globe on a billion plus computers are to this day I've never heard anything concrete about it. Think of the power would give hackers. Indeed, such a back door would I think have a lot more risk than upside to it.
If the government could use it, then couldn't terrorists and crooks? Smiththers2 Limp Gawd. Joined Jun 2, Messages SpaceHonkey Gawd. Joined Jan 25, Messages It was discovered that there appeared to be "backdoor" in that if you knew the key, the random numbers would be weighted heavily in a given direction and thus easily guessed. For those not familiar with how encryption works, without random numbers, your encryption won't be very effective. The amount of data it turns out as it was guessed was only 32 bytes before the random numbers used could be guessed if you knew the "key".
That is less than it takes to do an SSL handshake. Keep in mind, the algorithm used for encryption does not matter if you can guess the random numbers. To me the biggest threat is not necessarily that if the NSA wants to it can know every bit of my data.
My fear is that someone else could figure out the key and have free reign on all data encrypted using this prng. That would not be just an invasion of privacy, but a genuine inter national security threat. Frozen Limp Gawd. Joined May 30, Messages Why doesnt everyone who is freaking out.. If there is a back door.. It would never affect you. If you are doing some terrorist shit then yea..
People sometimes forget there are billions of people on this earth. That's a ton of data to sift through.. Nobody cares that you stalk your ex on facebook
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