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US Says It Doesn't Need a Court Order To Ask Tech Companies To Build Encryption Backdoors (gizmodo.com)
schwit1 shares a report from Gizmodo: According to statements from July released this weekend, intelligence officials told members of the Senate Intelligence Committee that there's no need for them to approach courts before requesting a tech company help willfully -- though they can always resort to obtaining a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court order if the company refuses. The documents show officials testified they had never needed to obtain such an FISC order, though they declined to tell the committee whether they had "ever asked a company to add an encryption backdoor," per ZDNet. Other reporting has suggested the FISC has the power to authorize government personnel to compel such technical assistance without even notifying the FISC of what exactly is required. Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act gives authorities additional powers to compel service providers to build backdoors into their products.
The Cisco backdoor was found because the US government said "hey, Huawei is copying our Cisco backdoor!" So not only was the Huawei backdoor found, which was a product of Huawei copying Cisco's code line for line, but Cisco's backdoor was discovered, as well as the US government involvement in that "accidental" backdoor.
The only country proven to have officially requested backdoors in equipment is the USA. Yet the USA spends money on getting Australia to refuse to buy from Huawei, to protect Cisco's market share, as a reverse bribe for complicity.
That you don't believe in Cointelpro doesn't mean it didn't happen.
You forgot to mention "every radio coprocessor in every smart phone ever made." The radio coprocessor in cell phones typically has full "back door" access to the resources used by the main CPU and OS you interact with. The code for it is 100% closed off and the massive flaws in the cellular system's authentication that allow Stingrays etc. to actually work properly means you have this closed-off CPU that can do arbitrary stuff on your phone open to access from outsiders with knowledge of cell system architecture.
Except they don't say no, remember Microsoft? Keen to get lots of surveillance contracts bent over backwards to give them disk encryption keys.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/11/microsoft-nsa-collaboration-user-data
" Microsoft helped the NSA to circumvent its encryption to address concerns that the agency would be unable to intercept web chats on the new Outlook.com portal; The agency already had pre-encryption stage access to email on Outlook.com, including Hotmail; The company worked with the FBI this year to allow the NSA easier access via Prism to its cloud storage service SkyDrive, which now has more than 250 million users worldwide; Microsoft also worked with the FBI's Data Intercept Unit to "understand" potential issues with a feature in Outlook.com that allows users to create email aliases;"
Blackberry? Remember their CTO's meeting with law enforcement to tout their cooperation?
Can I point out something that people don't seem to connect in the current shock reveal. Erik Prince of Blackwater proposed to Trump to form a hit squad/propaganda/plumbers unit loyal to Trump and Trump alone funded privately to overcome 'deep state' legal resistance. Erick Prince also admitted to meeting Kirill Dmitriev, head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund, when he was a Trump team advisor. So who do they think would fund and run these mercenaries loyal to Trump?... It's really no different to the hacking squad that backed Trump, it would be run in the same way.
No tech company would put in a back door.
Well, CISCO did.
Any that does is basically saying "Don't buy our product" because, as soon as they do, GUESS WHAT..people won't buy it.
Cisco did that too. And Intel is currently trying to do this as well.
Look at what happened to Microsoft after the news about PRISM. Microsoft tried to make the camera a 'requirement' for all X-Box One games until a massive backlash happened. Microsoft backtracked and it basically killed the X-Box camera for gaming outside of a short list.
People won't buy a product with a built in back door. Companies won't make a product that people won't buy.
Yes, but only if they get think they will get caught. As any other criminal-minded entity, they of course assume they will not get caught...
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
This is probably more explainable by a much greater ammount of nationalism in USA.
Just like Qwest?