Govermentally mandated backdoors

Great! It seems that the geniuses at FCC decided that broadband providers, and manufacturers of broadband equipment (ie. firewalls) have to provide an insecure bacdoors for the feds. Awesome!

Now I can have a governmentally mandated, hardwired hole in my firewall because the feds might one day need to snoop on me. Hell, they can spy all they want! In fact, all they have to do is to show up at my ISP and they will happily hand over all the logs of my activity thanks to the great clauses in Patriot Act. But no - they want full remote access to my machine at any time they want.

And of course this will never get exploited by script kiddies, and trojan writers. Of course not - no one will ever figure out how the backdoor works. I mean, come on - it's not like these guys run a port scanner day and night indexing randomly generated IP's. Oh, wait... They do? Oops...

Screw my right to privacy - it's not like they are not walking all over that with the Patriot Act bullshit. Screw the security of my home computer - it's not the end of the world if someone wipes out my hard drive or uses me as a spam zombie. But I do run a server for my company. And we do store some sensitive data there that we would like to keep private. If you put a standardized backdoor in my modem and firewall - then anyone can get in. Any script kiddie can mess with my data. The competitor can spy on me. Dissatisfied client can wipe my data... Great! Simply brilliant.

I don't care how much pseudo-security they put in there. If the feds can get in whenever they want, someone will figure out a way to do the same sooner or later.

Tags: eff, fcc, brodband backdoor, FBI backdoors, fcc mandates backdoors for feds, this shit is wack