alt Hacker News>You cannot have an "only the good guys" backdoor.
So what? If I store a document in a private Google doc. I know that technically a Google employee could read it if they really wanted to, but the policies, security, and culture in place make it have a 0% of happening. It's possible to design proper access systems where random people are not able to come in and utilize that access.
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> It's possible to design proper access systems where random people are not able to come in and utilize that access.
How quickly "Hacker" News forgets Snowden.
>I know that technically a Google employee could read it if they really wanted to, but the policies, security, and culture in place make it have a 0% of happening.
We know it's non-zero as they have already had occasions when it has happened that Google employees used their access to stalk teenagers.
So you think there's no Google employees with privileged access gooning on private images, stalking, selling access, disrupting individuals, etc?
Schmidt notoriously had a backdoor, and I'd be far more shocked if executives did not have backdoor access and know all the workarounds and conditions in which they have unaccountable, admin visibility into any data they might want to access.
These are human beings, not diligent, intrepid champions of moral clarity with pristine principles.