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US cuts funding to F-Droid, Tor Browser, Let's Encrypt and Tails Linux (videos.abnormalbeings.space)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.abnormalbeings.space/post/952648

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Backdoor access to what?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (2 children)

The last reply I will make.

From September 19 2024

"In response, the Tor Project acknowledged that one user of an outdated application called Ricochet was likely deanonymized through a “guard discovery attack.” However, they emphasized that this vulnerability has since been patched in current versions of Tor software."

https://cybersecuritynews.com/tor-claims-network-safe/

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

but that wasn't his last reply

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Excuse me? Are you saying using guard discovery is a backdoor someone gave to the government? I mean, you can think whatever, but the technology isn't really.. backdoorable? It doesn't make sense in the context. Where will the backdoor lead? It has no where to go.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

(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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 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.