Comment on Microsoft Gave FBI Keys to Unlock Encrypted Data, Exposing Major Privacy Flaw

• herseycokguzelolacak@lemmy.ml ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Uploading the key to the cloud is a backdoor. The encryption is only as secure as the your key.

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  • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Sure doesnt sound like that to me.

    A backdoor is a typically covert method of bypassing normal authentication or encryption in a computer, product, embedded device (e.g. a home router), or its embodiment

    Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backdoor_(computing)

    Not very covert if it is offered to a user.
    If MS gives up the key that is stored plainly in their system, that is a problem. But not a backdoor.
    This is quite literally the police knocking on the front door and demanding the key.

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    • herseycokguzelolacak@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      This is a meaningless, pedantic argument. Call it backdoor or something else, it does not matter. What matters is that it renders the encryption worthless.

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      • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨24⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

        If I stick the key outside of the apartment the lock is also useless.

        In the end it’s the carelessness of the user and not some nefarious scheme the big bad corp trying to come for your homework folder.

        You should really touch some grass and stop playing cyberpunk2077 so much. For your own mental being.

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