The Horror of a 'Secure Golden Key'
Author of the post here. (Thanks, Jeremy.)There are many details I avoided in the essay that people will get sidetracked on. Such as whether Apple is actually doing it right or not. This is discussed and speculated on elsewhere. And right now I'm far more worried about a world in which they're legally prevented from trying. When the FBI starts talking about our kids getting kidnapped, I think bills start getting drafted.There are tangents I think HN would've cared about, but which would've been a distraction. For related controversy, Keybase - which I work on - lets users symmetrically encrypt their asymmetric keys, and store that data on our servers. We also let you do crypto in JS. Many hate this! Many love it! But I want to be legally allowed to write this kind of software and release it without a backdoor.It's hard enough when we all fight about implementation details and security vs. convenience. It'll be a real crap show when we know for certain that security has lost. I'll go program video games or something. Or just play them.