French Government Rejects Hardware Backdoor Amendment

[Lucian Armasu]

Axelle Lemaire, the French Minister of Digital Affairs, rejected an amendment to the Digital Republic bill that would've created vulnerabilities in hardware products.

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[vern72]

Ok, at least the French aren't totally insane.

 

[eodeo]

They will always try to SOPA and NSA us. The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.

 

[Antony_2]

believe it or not, France hasn't digitized practically any government information in order to create jobs... Hopsitals, banks, taxes, jobs, applications... it all works the same as it did in 1960 regarding form filling and it sucks, i know because im a french national living here since 7 or 8 years. Also, if the bill was passed in the UK there would be no chance that the government would have to adhere to it, because 1 million in undercover money to a single worker at the encryptions standards consortium would pay for a back door for teh governments, spying and legal matters are not very closely related.

 

[Onus]

This article can be real GRAPES-bait; I suspect a number of Moderators face-palmed when we saw it. Let's please try to keep it narrowly focused on the topic of encryption and backdoors to keep it from getting out of hand. Thanks.

 

[COLGeek]

The French made the right decision.