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  • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
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    4 days ago

    (I am a different person, not arguing anything about this particular vulnerability or the government’s funding of Tor.)

    I think you’re defining backdoor too literally. I get your point, but colloquially it just means to get something nefarious in. If someone is saying “the government has a backdoor in an encryption algorithm” it would mean they believe the government has a vulnerability in that allows them to easily break the encryption, not necessarily a separate “door” or something.

    • KeenFlame@feddit.nu
      11·
      2 days ago

      Yeah the government has an institutional thing I forget what it is called, with massive amount of known exploits. That’s not backdoors. A backdoor is a “planted” exploit, not a discovered exploit. It makes no sense to call all exploits backdoors.