On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 1:45 PM, ianG <i...@iang.org> wrote: > On 30/08/13 01:26 AM, zooko wrote: >> On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 09:18:33PM +0300, ianG wrote: >>> >>> ... >> I don't know. I asked a lawyer a few days ago -- a person who is, as far >> as I >> can tell, one of the leading experts in this field. Their answer was that >> nobody knows. > > That is how they like it. In such an environment, they can exert a lot of > pressure. > > But to come to the crunch -- is there *any* evidence that they have ever > ordered the backdooring of some software system? Or does it all come down > to 'an accommodation' ? I've heard of many of the latter, none of the > former. There's usually no need to order because there's an unholy partnership among the four branches of US government.
What did Hushmail do? Did it willing accommodate a request, or was it ordered to install the backdoor? Here, I would view "creating and distributing" the applet as the backdoor. Was it done so voluntarily or under legal coercion. Jeff _______________________________________________ cryptography mailing list cryptography@randombit.net http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography
