The sport of holding Apple, Google and other tech companies over a barrel to demand backdoors now has a new player: New York. The state assembly has come up with a proposed bill that would ban encrypted mobile phones and slap manufacturers with a $2,500 fine per phone sold in the state of New York without a backdoor. In a nutshell, backdoors are security holes – for example, an undocumented master decryption key – knowingly added to software.
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ORIGINAL SOURCE: Naked Security
