{"id":141,"date":"2014-01-11T19:28:05","date_gmt":"2014-01-11T19:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ccrepairservices.com\/blog\/?p=141"},"modified":"2014-01-11T19:35:51","modified_gmt":"2014-01-11T19:35:51","slug":"what-its-like-when-the-fbi-asks-you-to-backdoor-your-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ccrepairservices.com\/blog\/computer-news\/what-its-like-when-the-fbi-asks-you-to-backdoor-your-software\/","title":{"rendered":"What It&#8217;s Like When The FBI Asks You To Backdoor Your Software"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At a recent RSA Security Conference, Nico Sell was on stage announcing that her company\u2014Wickr\u2014was making drastic changes to ensure its users&#8217; security. She said that the company would switch from RSA encryption to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Elliptic_curve_Diffie%E2%80%93Hellman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">elliptic curve encryption<\/a>, and that the service wouldn&#8217;t have a backdoor for anyone.<\/p>\n<p>As she left the stage, before she&#8217;d even had a chance to take her microphone off, a man approached her and introduced himself as an agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation. He then proceeded to &#8220;casually&#8221; ask if she&#8217;d be willing to install a backdoor into Wickr that would allow the FBI to retrieve information.<\/p>\n<p>MORE HERE: <a class=\"externalLink\" href=\"https:\/\/securitywatch.pcmag.com\/security\/319544-what-it-s-like-when-the-fbi-asks-you-to-backdoor-your-software\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/securitywatch.pcmag.com\/secu&#8230;en-the-fbi-asks-you-to-backdoor-your-software<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">ONLINE COMPUTER REPAIR SERVICES AND NEWS AT<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><a title=\"News and Repair Guides for Computers\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ccrepairservices.com\">www.ccrepairservices.com<\/a><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At a recent RSA Security Conference, Nico Sell was on stage announcing that her company\u2014Wickr\u2014was making drastic changes to ensure its users&#8217; security. She said that the company would switch from RSA encryption to elliptic curve encryption, and that the service wouldn&#8217;t have a backdoor for anyone. As she left the stage, before she&#8217;d even had a chance to take her microphone off, a man approached her and introduced himself as an agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation. He then proceeded to &#8220;casually&#8221; ask if she&#8217;d be willing to install a backdoor into Wickr that would allow the FBI to retrieve information. MORE HERE: https:\/\/securitywatch.pcmag.com\/secu&#8230;en-the-fbi-asks-you-to-backdoor-your-software ONLINE COMPUTER REPAIR SERVICES AND NEWS AT www.ccrepairservices.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[89,87,86,88],"class_list":["post-141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-news","tag-backdoor","tag-fbi","tag-news","tag-surveillance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ccrepairservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ccrepairservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ccrepairservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ccrepairservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ccrepairservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ccrepairservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144,"href":"https:\/\/www.ccrepairservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions\/144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ccrepairservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ccrepairservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ccrepairservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}