"Backdoor access" refers to a secret or hidden entry point that allows someone to access something, such as a computer system or a building, without going through the usual or intended methods of entry. It provides a way to bypass normal security measures and gain unauthorized or covert access to something.
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Since the Westminster attack, the inability to access WhatsApp messages has angered the intelligence services and Home Office, which have called
for backdoor access to content.
Understandably, in the wake of revelations that a shady firm working for Donald Trump's presidential campaign
got backdoor access to as many as 87 million Facebook profiles, much of the questioning focused on Facebook's privacy policies.
Cook's sensitivity on the subject likely goes back to 2013, when Apple was accused of working with the NSA to
provide backdoor access to its customers through hidden software on its iPhone handsets.
By Tuesday morning Techmeme had assembled more than 30 headlines about DROPOUTJEEP and made the Daily Dot's The NSA has nearly
complete backdoor access to Apple's iPhone its lead story.
The NSA has worked with American and foreign tech companies to introduce weaknesses into commercial encryption products,
allowing backdoor access to data that users believe is secure.
A new effort to ensure that the government can
gain backdoor access to encrypted messages could thwart one of the most promising applications of physics for digital security
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Nest's announcement that it will share user data with Google as well as third - party services like Logitech and Jawbone has unsurprisingly reawakened privacy concerns, coinciding with a new hack of the Smart Thermostat that could in theory give
nefarious backdoor access.
If Samsung itself isn't eavesdropping on Smart TV owners, it is definitely giving others an
easy backdoor access.
While there is no evidence that Huawei has
offered backdoor access to the Chinese government, it doesn't look like the U.S. government and its affiliated intelligence community is going to let up anytime soon.
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Civil liberties experts, on the contrary, worry that at the end of the day, not a single way is possible to stop the adamant government bodies from nagging
for backdoor access to encrypted systems.
«Before the election, David Cameron stated that... a Tory government would plan to block encrypted messaging applications... unless the government
gets backdoor access to users» messages.
Roku, a leading media streaming company providing cheaper access to shows and movies,
provides backdoor access to hardcore pornography as well.
This summer one of China's Internet regulators sent a letter to American tech firms asking them to agree to store user data inside the country and agree to language that's known for
building backdoor access to data, the New York Times reported last week.
You may recall that last year the FBI asked Apple to give
it backdoor access to the San Bernardino shooter's iPhone, and Apple refused.
In the meantime, Facebook promises, it won't be using
its backdoor access to delete or retract any more of its chief exec's messages.