Hi there. I’m a longtime boinger, longtime blogger, and longtime system admin. And I’m done.
Let’s be clear: this is the first salvo in a war that will end with all crypto, including TLS/SSL, being accessible with government tools, ie: a “master key” scenario. That will compromise security throughout the entire internet - Somehow the master key gets leaked, and suddenly no connections are secure.
Hackers, criminals, terrorists, they’ll be all over everything. Corporate data theft, people’s bank accounts being emptied, identity theft: they’ll all be commonplace. We know this, because we have relatively OK crypto now, and hackers are STILL all over everything. We’re talking about a total clusterfuck of our most important internet infrastructure.
Virtually every major tech company, computer science authority, and digital-rights advocate is in complete agreement that breaking crypto is a horrible idea. Certain politicians refuse to listen to a plurality of experts, just like climate change or vaccines.
People can’t seem to take notice. So I say: fuck it. Let the internet burn. Less than one year without working TLS/SSL and the world BEG the tech community to bring back crypto and make things right again. It’s too bad we’ll have to loose so much in order for society to actually listen to the people it continually lauds as “our best and brightest”.
