Does one even need to backdoor encryption? My own person opinion and observation is that all the operating systems and IoT appear to be slowly cooking/sneaking in instrumental convergence [1]. I may be a cranky old troglodyte but I see it in Linux with ebpf that one can not disable without recompiling the kernel and is already being used by file-less malware ... how many firewalls and load balancers have this enabled but not actively managed?, systemd bringing in platform design vulnerabilities from windows 9x including binfmt and hijacking debugfs, vendors accidentally leaving hard coded administrative credentials in firmware, cloud providers starting with insecure by default options see the history of AWS S3 buckets. I could go on all day listing these and no I will not accept Hanlon's Razor "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." The people creating these tools are not incompetent. For that matter I suspect many of the famous quotes may be abused as part of the tool-set for instrumental convergence. Again this is just my opinion and observations. I've probably been doing this too long which is all the more reason I should be raising some happy chickens.
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