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Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton says Apple's Tim Cook 'omitted critical facts' in encryption stance
I thought this was laid to rest during the Clinton administration when the so-called Clipper chip was hacked before it could even be put into production.
The fact is that this is absolutely unfeasible. Even if you were to implement it what makes you think pornographers and terrorists and drug dealers are going to use apps with backdoor encryption? Silly rabbit, they will just use apps with strong encryption from outside the US.
Meanwhile law abiding US citizens will be hacked en masse through the back doors so thoughtfully required by Congressional Idiots like Mr. Cotton.
The world's leading experts in the field recently updated their classic 1997 proof of the fallacy of this approach in the following:
http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/97690