This month the Obama administration sent its big guns to Silicon Valley in an effort to get the computer makers to open up back doors in their systems so that law enforcement could more easily gain access to data. Tim […]
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Leading technology companies such as Google, Apple, and a few others, along with a bunch of cryptologists have requested President Obama to protect privacy rights and avoid any backdoor entry for police access to encrypted smartphone data. Through a signed
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Definition: A backdoor is a secret or undocumented means of getting into a computer system. Many programs have backdoors placed by the programmer to allow them to gain access to troubleshoot or change the program. Some backdoors are placed by
