Kosmos

Every minute of every hour, every day of the week foreign governments and criminal organisations probe the infrastructure of the modern internet for weaknesses. Hackers inject script and shell commands into database fields in order to trip database servers up and serve them confidential information. Governments and foreign agencies accumulate zero day exploits in an arsenal they use to breach the security of every electronic device we have. International fibre connectors have been tapped by governments who siphon all the data they can from the Internet and subject it to detection algorithm's that seek out patterns of behaviour or attempt to ascertain your login credentials so that your accounts can be targeted ina potential breach. And we have one single defense against it all. ONE. This isn't hyperbole, it's the truth. Complex encryption algorithms safeguard you when you login to your bank, that you are the only person interacting with your bank in that session. Sure the data is going to be captured but its useless because it is encrypted in a one way process. What happens if you back door that system? Well I could take the recorded data and see everything you did while you were interacting with the bank. If I was looking at it as you were interacting with the bank I could insert transactions or present you with false account information just for starters. Your security is guaranteed by the encryption mechanisms that protect the connection. What if you are an employee logging into your company portal from China. Your company is researching a new product and China wants it so that it can manufacture its own version instead of licensing it from you. Try as hard as they like all they can get is the encrypted stream between you and your corporate portal. Until its backdoored. You're a security consultant with an iPhone someone takes your iPhone away from you at a security checkpoint far a few minutes before returning it to you. That is all the time it takes to do a complete copy of the phones contents encrypted or not. At least if they are encrypted they are about as useful as a choclate kettle. If the phone is backdoored.. Well.. And this is the important point, Encryption IS A COLLECTION OF STANDARDS. Weakening the standard weakens it not justr for the iPhonr, but for Android too; not just for Android but the Web too. The web and the electronic economy function because you and you alone trust that you are interacting with the companies that are selling products and services. Backdooring Encryption eliminates that completely and creates a target for every foreign government, and every criminal organisation to chase. The choice is yours, do you promote security and the free market are do you eliminate trust from the equation and let the chaos in abit?