Monday 15 May 2017

Wannacry ransomware, a good reason to say no to backdoor requests from government


Today's widespread ransomware attack, using NSA tools, shows the criticality and importance of Cyber security.

It is probably a good time to talk about government requests for having backdoor on personal devices, mobile devices or others. Although, I do believe society and public security is important and governments should do their best to investigate things like breaches, terrorist attacks and so on, but what would happen if a backdoor used by government leaked and attackers gained access to it!??

What happens if NSA and FBI have a large list of backdoors and their network gets compromised! What a dark world it could be!


We, all cybersecurity professionals, are responsible to think ethically, and to the best of our ability, and in benefit of people. Is this better to investigate one terrorist attack, or it is better to leave opportunity for hundreds by having backdoors??