Unlocking the Backdoors

The laws Australian changed back in 2018 to allow the government to break the encryption on software (and apps) that use it. In essence, to create a backdoor. Now, Five Eyes nations plus Japan, India call for Big Tech to bake backdoors into everything.

You don’t have to go back too far in history to find the creation of a similar backdoor and the problems it creates. The TSA (aka Transportation Security Administration), according to some sources they would cut off the locks to inspect baggage and had received 3,500 complaints in 2011. So TSA had a special set of locks manufactured with a set of eight master keys that could open them.

However, due to a photo of the keys getting out, people recreated them using 3D printing. By 2016 The last TSA master key has been hacked, but the TSA Doesn’t Care That Its Luggage Locks Have Been Hacked.

This form, of security relies on people not knowing the secret. Basically, the phrase is Security through obscurity. It’s a simple trick to ass these ideas to your game.

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