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

[dan at geer.org]

> 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.

You have hit on it.  Either an ISP is a government monopoly
or it is a private component of the critical infrastructure.
In the former case, the government owns the means.  In the
latter case, the government 0wns the means.  Have you a
preference for O v 0?

--dan