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Well in theory, if there are issues with say a criminal, and the government/ the law want to look at it I have no issue with them doing so.
I don’t have anything to hide.
Backdoors in software and hardware though, not sure if you want that to be a thing as such.
Secure accounts in all things so the government can look if they need or a way maybe then.
But firstly can you trust the government to be secure.
There have been a lot of breaches in some of our government’s systems, especially under high load where the system has spewed the wrong data to someone else.
Next, there are governments in general, look at china, even if this is not fully true.
How do you trust the government to handle it if they need your data for something and not just get it and use it for no reason what so ever.
Case in point, an article in the local paper, had some government worker get access to someone’s data or files for something.
Not content to read it, he put all sorts of garbage in the files, crimes that the person hadn’t done, etc, he was caught of course.
But there are governments that are not as transparent as ours, that could do a lot of dammage.
Next, while I am happy for the government to get access to my data when they wish they sort of do it to bits of that anyway, are they secure.
In fact, taking out all the internal issues, if I were a hacker I’d go after the governmental databases so I could pull their backdoor passwords and use them.
Especially if they had to have them stored somewhere well.
I think the only way this would work at all, was if there was a definite reason to do so.
When that eventuated, a temperary account or whatever was created.
There would have to be limits on that, when it was destroyed, it wouldn’t last for ever, if there was nothing to answer for that was destroyed immediately.
But never saved and only certain people had access.
Even if a hacker got access to it, they couldn’t or shouldn’t have the ability to change the account passwords, or even delete the account that would be done somewhere else.
You would only have access to what you needed.
Could someone do something within the loophole created.
If there were procedures on what happened and when, then there probably wouldn’t be one of those.
But its all how they are structured.
Becides all this though articles have proven that big companies like facebook and maybe others are selling the data you have put up there.
I’d imagine that government backdoors could become a valuable asset.
It wouldn’t surprise me if we get more security things to fix after supposed government servers got hacked.
The only reason most of us normal people are safe is we don’t have that much cash, hackers want businesses mainly not us.
But governments start doing that sort of thing they will be targets.
It may work, lets hope it does.
I have had various issues along the lines where government access is concerned, even though I allowed it.
Things like trying to change something with an inaccessible website, only toh ave to use the phone to make that info.
After doing so messing it up and correcting it over the phone.
The data mysteriously vanishing as well as my call to fix it.
The issues not being fixed, and its happened before.
This time, what was worse the government decided to cut off funding for me because of something.
There is a process to follow to get things back but they wanted to get me to proove myself and try to screw me over.
Luckily I was able to get some help and they decided to not persue doing that as I was over my head at that point.
It would be nice if a system like this worked to the bennifit of all consumers and governments.
But the governments rarely have a straight road on any of this.
Excluding issues inside, breaches and the like, people can make mistakes.
In my case, I allowed access to my data, it was secured it was fine.
But no one on the desk either the support switchboard and the level2 case support seemed to know much over guidelines.
Sadly thats as far as I was ever able to get to.
And while yes things got reported, no communication that anything was done.
And while I do need to give access for that data, its obvious thatcustomer service is not on the piority for those that troubleshoot.
The fact is, people want to know why you need access, then its usually ok.
Governments don’t seem to want to communicate or some of them don’t or at least clearly and regularly.
In fact, while my issues were small in comparison to if I had committed an actual offence, there have been articles again in the local paper where someone has a problem, they try to get it fixed, and the government get nasty and screw them over.
It concerns me that even with best intentions, even with the most secured vetted environment and workforce and all that we will still have issues.
Thats fine, but how many issues can the government or service handle without it overwhelming them.
Then you ask why are the government spying on everyone for no good reason.
At which point you start losing trust big time.
For me while I havn’t lost all the trust I have in the income service part of the government, I am now inclined to not take them as seriously as I once would have.
I know that they don’t want to solve issues I report to them and if things get bad, its my fault not them.
So while I will report what I must within law, its not going to be something I will do because I want to.
There are so many fishing mails, you would never know what is truth.