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Governments around the world are demanding backdoors into encrypted data. 

🚪What are backdoors?

🔒How do they undermine our right to privacy and security?

🛡️What can you do to protect our right to privacy?

Spend #GlobalEncryptionDay learning the importance of protecting encryption 👇

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What Is an Encryption Backdoor? - Internet Society

Encryption backdoors allow third parties to access the content of encrypted communications and can create security problems.
Paula Bernardi (Internet Society)
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kennebel
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kennebel
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and if someone thinks that “only the government” will be able to use the back door, I have a bridge for sale.
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Bo Tally
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Bo Tally
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there are convincing arguments on both sides of this issue. But police cannot be given access to a person’s private thoughts in a free society.
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Aleksei 🎃
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Aleksei 🎃
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"While the intention was to make that backdoor accessible only to authorized groups (like law enforcement), in reality, this is almost never the case."

Add to that that a government can also be a threat, especially in authoritarian countries.

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