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FBI Warns iPhone, Android Users—We Want ‘Lawful Access’ To All Your Encrypted Data (www.forbes.com)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

fair enough, padlock was the wrong type of lock for the analogy. how about a vault door? sure that may not be as common, but you don't have to support a government master key for those either.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago

Same thing goes for vaults, or all physical locks. It may take a little longer than a padlock but nothing comparable to the amount of time it would take to brute force good encryption. We’re talking maybe a couple of hours or days for a vault vs. millions of years.