When Fake Security (Back Doors Disguised as 'Security') is Mandated Real Security (and Confidentiality) Becomes a Crime
UEFI, for example, is a back door and de facto kill switch
Confidentiality and security are being privatised by the few who are extremely corrupt and have plenty to hide. To us, they are only willing to give encryption to which they hold back-door keys [1, 2] and they attack people who talk about it. The last thing they're willing to tolerate is a society that can organise effectively, without being snooped on, for much-needed social and economic change.
This was posted some days ago:
For (a simpler) argument's sake, let's set aside the fact that mobile phones have many holes, including many that cannot be patched or worked around (some are in the baseband OS, which cannot be touched). On top of this, at another layer, there's the creeping aspect of the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) alongside equivalents.
What the developers are trying to say is, and we may have recently seen this in Telegram and Signal as well, instead of trying to terrorise individual users (a challenge of scale) the developers get targeted, sometimes blackmailed, or projects infiltrated.
In a society where people cannot communicate securely (as in, privately), what have we got left to secure democracy? How can whistleblowers be properly protected from those whose abuses they expose? █