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Remember this the next time you may tend to agree with governments' push for backdoors. If they get their way even Google Authenticator won't be safe, just as SMS isn't anymore for 2FA, all because the surveillance agencies preferred to keep the SS7 vulnerability and others like it so they can exploit it (outside of the "rule of law", as otherwise they wouldn't need it).


But...if a public that doesn't understand the nature of backdoors is fearful of the consequences of backdoors being cracked, it's a short step to turn attempts to crack the backdoor into something terrifying, in which case an attempt to crack the backdoor becomes a justification for its existence.

Yes, I'm cynical on this matter.




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