While everyone’s mind is directed to the Covid-19 pandemic, Democrats and Republicans, led by Lindsay Graham and Richard Blumenthal, have cooperated to create a piece of legislation that will require every commercial piece of encrypted software to include a back-door for use by law enforcement. This legislation, of course, justifies such requirements under the guise of stopping heinous crimes, but the reality is they want it to exercise their voyeuristic fantasies of control. This must be stopped.
Even if — nay, especially if, you have “nothing to hide,” these back doors are a real problem because it’s only a matter of time before back doors available only to the very trustworthy agencies that gave us the Steele Dossier are also leaked to hackers, identity thieves and others. Even worse, such back doors could not only allow reading of your traffic, but could potentially be abused to plant information you are unaware of, that would then appear to be yours. Even if you know the producers of the Steele Dossier can be implicitly trusted, with such back doors it won’t be long before jealous exes can have contraband planted on your computer.
The fact a bipartisan group of legislators (equally funded by globalist interests) wants this should be warning enough that it is a bad idea. They are so desperate to be able to voyeuristically spy on your holiday recipes that they don’t really care if they have to endanger you to do it, because to them, you are nothing. Just a data point to be manipulated.
So follow the instructions at the Electronic Freedom Foundation Action Center at https://act.eff.org/action/protect-our-speech-and-security-online-reject-the-graham-blumenthal-bill in order to contact your Congress Critters, and start putting some pressure on them to reject this proposal.