Salt Typhoon Shows There's No Security Backdoor That's Only for the "Good Guys"

The EFF raises valid concerns regarding the abuse of security backdoors. As far as I remember, they and other privacy advocate have been doing so for the longest period of time.<p>Unfortunately, the real world will always fall short of the ideal one. Telegram and Durov are already facing this issue - where privacy ends and law enforcement begins.

a back door should be the front door where the one who needs the information goes to the office of the information holder and accesses the information inside the provider&#x27;s space with the proper court warrants.

Isn&#x27;t this premature? Regardless of philosophy on government surveillance, there is no indication this was a &quot;backdoor&quot; or some mathematical weakness put in place by government.<p>A system designed to allow access to data is not by definition a backdoor.

And in other news, water is wet.<p>Someone forgot to tell the bad guys to set the appropriate RFC 3514 bit.