Researchers Find ‘Backdoor’ in Encrypted Police and Military Radios

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[–]Drewski[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

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[–]SoCo 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I suspect we export a lot of back door'd version of things to other countries. Some pieces of history seem to indicate that this was exclusively what many of our current electronic election ballot devices were initially created for. Somehow, after helping overthrow democracy abroad, they made it back full circle.

[–]binaryblob 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Bart Jacobs, a professor of security, privacy and identity, [..], said he hopes “this really is the end of closed, proprietary crypto, not based on open, publicly scrutinised standards.”

He is just stating Kerckhoffs's principle dating from 1883. So, that means the Dutch police is about 140 years behind. Are they retarded in The Netherlands or what?

A military radio should just be an FPGA connected to some open-source software with the FPGA produced by a verified supply chain. How fucking hard can it be?

[–]In-the-clouds 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Quick video demonstration: https://invidious.esmailelbob.xyz/watch?v=-m9UTJLt4uw