The FBI Should Stop Attacking Encryption
The metamessage to me, especially in light of the Crypto AG disclosures (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_AG" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_AG</a> <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/world/national-security/cia-crypto-encryption-machines-espionage/" rel="nofollow">https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/world/national-...</a>), is that <i>backdoors have always been the principle means of signals intelligence</i>.<p>Intercepting the phones, tapping the lines, listening on broadcasts, surveilling deaddrops, compromising encryption, are all far easier than the computationally hard work of cracking strong crypto.<p>And LEO / Intel don't like to break a sweat.