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Governments continue losing efforts to gain backdoor access to secure communications (theconversation.com)
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[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

From a cybersecurity perspective, it is nearly impossible to create a backdoor to a communications product that is only accessible for certain purposes or under certain conditions.

Oh? It is possible? Pray tell, how?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Screen recording or snapshots like Windows Recall. Or keyboard telemitry.

But that's it I think.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago (2 children)

It's well known that iphone, google samsung and microsoft android keyboards are the most used keyloggers in the world.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

Nah apple wouldn’t do that :)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I didn't know that. Who do they send these logs to?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 days ago

The NSA and advertisers. It was confirmed the MS Android keyboards were keyloggers after microsoft suffered a data breach revealing millions of typing records, so it's not far fetched to assume windows does the same, especially after you see the sheer amount of data being sent straight to microsoft servers when analysing traffic.