[Cryptography] DOJ Wants to Expand Authority to Break Into Suspects' Computers

[John Kelsey]

> On Jun 2, 2014, at 7:48 AM, ianG <iang at iang.org> wrote:
>> On 31/05/2014 22:28 pm, Bill Frantz wrote:

...
>> I would add to John Pescatore's comment: I can see the TLAs delivering a
>> NSL to developers of major software requiring them to install backdoors
>> and keep quiet about it. Do Apple and Microsoft have a canary? How about
>> Firefox, Opera, Crome etc?
> 
> And, when the execs of those countries are fronted before court in
> another country, what is the defence?

Those companies do business in a great many countries.  Will each one be able to demand backdoors be inserted in all their software and keep quiet about it to all the others?  ISTM that this is the path to having almost no off the shelf products provide meaningful security.  

> iang

--John