So the Chinese Government is about as sharp as a box of shipping peanuts....
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New Chinese law takes aim at encryption
To summarize, the government passed a law requiring some way to decrypt encrypted information. ...
Grand times we live in..
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A new law passed by China's Parliament on Sunday requires technology companies to assist the government in decrypting content, a provision that the country maintains is modeled after Western law.
Xinhua quoted Li Shouwei, of the National People's Congress Standing Committee legislative affairs commission, as saying the law doesn't require technology companies to install "backdoors,"
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Basically the west set the standard very low and the Chinese did not have much to live up to.
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I was reading a response from the US Government... basically it said "do what we say and not what we do."
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@coliver said:
I was reading a response from the US Government... basically it said "do what we say and not what we do."
Well and officially China is not requiring backdoors. Can the US say the same thing?
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@scottalanmiller said:
@coliver said:
I was reading a response from the US Government... basically it said "do what we say and not what we do."
Well and officially China is not requiring backdoors. Can the US say the same thing?
Well not yet at least, but that is was the talking heads want.
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What doesn't make sense about the topic here, is that the very same people wanting to decrypt these communications for the purposes of targeting terrorist, would also use the very same ability to hold you at ransom for their own gain.
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@DustinB3403 said:
What doesn't make sense about the topic here, is that the very same people wanting to decrypt these communications for the purposes of targeting terrorist, would also use the very same ability to hold you at ransom for their own gain.
Politicians passing laws for personal gain? Say it isn't so!
