It should be clear to anyone who followed the link and read the article that Madison has no hard evidence that there are now or have ever been NSA backdoors in anyone's software. If he had any, he would name companies and applications. Where are they? I believe in free encryption and hate the NSA as much as the next guy, but muttering vague imprecations like "manufacturers play ball with the NSA" and "they're not going to give up control of strong crypto and get nothing in return" serves no purpose but to feed the conspiracy theories on Slashdot.
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It should be clear to anyone who followed the link and read the article that Madison has no hard evidence that there are now or have ever been NSA backdoors in anyone's software. If he had any, he would name companies and applications. Where are they? I believe in free encryption and hate the NSA as much as the next guy, but muttering vague imprecations like "manufacturers play ball with the NSA" and "they're not going to give up control of strong crypto and get nothing in return" serves no purpose but to feed the conspiracy theories on Slashdot. AH
An excellent overview of Bluetooth security, enumerating potential flaws that aren't discussed in the Markoff article, can be found here.