Comment by tux3
4 years ago
Nothing is ever new. You can always find some vague prototype of an idea that failed to become ubiquitous ten years ago.
When I read that this shouldn't be surprising, it has an aftertaste of "Dropbox is not interesting/surprising because ftpfs+CVS have existed for well over a decade"
> Nothing is ever new. You can always find some vague prototype of an idea that failed to become ubiquitous ten years ago.
This has been standard practice for well over a decade amongst all big internet platforms.
Like, one can argue that regardless, people's messages should not be readable for any reason, but that's gonna be a tough one to get through a court of law.
The obvious difference here is that backdooring encryption is an all or nothing affair, which may require new thinking (it definitely does).
But the ship around this particular form of backdooring has most definitely sailed.
Like, the only reason Apple is new to this game is because they haven't been in the storage/media sharing business for as long as their competitors.