<story><title>The Horror of a &apos;Secure Golden Key&apos;</title><url>https://keybase.io/blog/2014-10-08/the-horror-of-a-secure-golden-key</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>panarky</author><text>The Powers that Be are conducting a coordinated disinformation campaign to keep and expand their backdoor access by scaring the bejesus out of the public.&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Apple will become the phone of choice for the pedophile.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;What happens when they blame strong cryptography for the next gut-wrenching tragedy involving innocent kids and a bombing &amp;#x2F; school shooting &amp;#x2F; kidnapping &amp;#x2F; pedophile?&lt;p&gt;Your arguments will be swept away by a tsunami of grief, hatred and blind patriotism. Is it possible to make an equally emotional argument in favor of the freedom to be secure?&lt;p&gt;Secure information deserves the same prestige and protection as the Four Freedoms.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Freedoms&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Four_Freedoms&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>malgorithms</author><text>Author of the post here. (Thanks, Jeremy.)&lt;p&gt;There are many details I avoided in the essay that people will get sidetracked on. Such as whether Apple is actually doing it right or not. This is discussed and speculated on elsewhere. And right now I&amp;#x27;m far more worried about a world in which they&amp;#x27;re legally prevented from trying. When the FBI starts talking about our kids getting kidnapped, I think bills start getting drafted.&lt;p&gt;There are tangents I think HN would&amp;#x27;ve cared about, but which would&amp;#x27;ve been a distraction. For related controversy, Keybase - which I work on - lets users symmetrically encrypt their asymmetric keys, and store that data on our servers. We also let you do crypto in JS. Many hate this! Many love it! But I want to be legally allowed to write this kind of software and release it without a backdoor.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s hard enough when we all fight about implementation details and security vs. convenience. It&amp;#x27;ll be a real crap show when we know for &lt;i&gt;certain&lt;/i&gt; that security has lost. I&amp;#x27;ll go program video games or something. Or just play them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aqme28</author><text>I hate to make this kind of argument but it isn&amp;#x27;t hard:&lt;p&gt;If a hacker gets access to this golden key, they can use data gleaned from your child&amp;#x27;s phone to stalk or hurt them.</text></comment>
<story><title>The Horror of a &apos;Secure Golden Key&apos;</title><url>https://keybase.io/blog/2014-10-08/the-horror-of-a-secure-golden-key</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>panarky</author><text>The Powers that Be are conducting a coordinated disinformation campaign to keep and expand their backdoor access by scaring the bejesus out of the public.&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Apple will become the phone of choice for the pedophile.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;What happens when they blame strong cryptography for the next gut-wrenching tragedy involving innocent kids and a bombing &amp;#x2F; school shooting &amp;#x2F; kidnapping &amp;#x2F; pedophile?&lt;p&gt;Your arguments will be swept away by a tsunami of grief, hatred and blind patriotism. Is it possible to make an equally emotional argument in favor of the freedom to be secure?&lt;p&gt;Secure information deserves the same prestige and protection as the Four Freedoms.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Freedoms&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Four_Freedoms&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>malgorithms</author><text>Author of the post here. (Thanks, Jeremy.)&lt;p&gt;There are many details I avoided in the essay that people will get sidetracked on. Such as whether Apple is actually doing it right or not. This is discussed and speculated on elsewhere. And right now I&amp;#x27;m far more worried about a world in which they&amp;#x27;re legally prevented from trying. When the FBI starts talking about our kids getting kidnapped, I think bills start getting drafted.&lt;p&gt;There are tangents I think HN would&amp;#x27;ve cared about, but which would&amp;#x27;ve been a distraction. For related controversy, Keybase - which I work on - lets users symmetrically encrypt their asymmetric keys, and store that data on our servers. We also let you do crypto in JS. Many hate this! Many love it! But I want to be legally allowed to write this kind of software and release it without a backdoor.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s hard enough when we all fight about implementation details and security vs. convenience. It&amp;#x27;ll be a real crap show when we know for &lt;i&gt;certain&lt;/i&gt; that security has lost. I&amp;#x27;ll go program video games or something. Or just play them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>VLM</author><text>&amp;quot;What happens when they blame strong cryptography for the next gut-wrenching tragedy&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;The topic changes but the story never does.  We still have rock music, teenagers, acid, dungeons and dragons, hippies, video games, atheism, firearms, meth, Islam, gays, texting while driving, basically all the good things in life, and we&amp;#x27;ll always have thousands of things in the future that are not cool with the conformist old people and will be blamed for everything bad whenever possible, and aside from a lot of journalist click bait nobody will really care.</text></comment>