@lyda @mattblaze The Chinese probably recruit students at their universities, and offer them the chance to travel abroad, make money, and win a place in the Chinese power structure if they can successfully get access to something valuable.

I recall when the whole CALEA thing started, the EFF was warning that there was no way to secure it and it would get abused by bad actors.

@me

1. Hypocrisy is advocating one thing while doing the opposite, which is not what the FBI is being criticized for here. They’re being criticized for being (very) late in advocating an important safeguard. See “closing the barn door…” etc.

2. The FBI is not an individual with feelings that must be protected. It’s a powerful, publicly funded institution subject to public scrutiny and criticism, at least for the time being.

@me @mattblaze

they still promote LE / IC access to encrypted
data via “trusted” tech companies retaining everyone’s encryption keys & oppose E2EE encryption¹𝄒², so there’s a [ citation needed ] for your assertion that “we are about to see change for the better”

maybe we should expect organisations to demonstrate that they have genuinely changed their position / policy / actions over an extended period of time before we start handing out cookies

1 https://www.fbi.gov/about/mission/lawful-access

2 https://www.fbi.gov/about/mission/lawful-access/lawful-access-myths-vs-reality