I may have to stop listening to the "Security Now" podcast on #twit.tv. First they have a podcast on how it is "technically" feasable to do a secure/safe backdoor in crypto. Yeah, Yeah, they kept mentioning that they were just talking about the math.. but the failed to make the point strongly enough that ANY backdoor in ANY crypto renders it useless. The purpose of Crypto is for me to get a message to other person with the secure knowledge that NO ONE else can read it. Once that fact is not longer true the crypto is useless. Because I'm basically trusting someone that's saying "I wont look.... honest".. Really???

Then the one I was listening to today they got into the Smart TV listening thing and went on about how it "wasn't a big thing" and that the company "had disclosed it responsibly in their privacy policy" ... who the heck reads the privacy policy on a frickin TV (well o.k. I might... but the average joe.. not likely).. they even dismissedthe possibility that A.) this data is going to be collected by the NSA etal and B.) that the companies in question wont sell it to advertisers. because "hey it's a cool feature and I want it and if you don't then you're a ludite and should go live in a cave".

Did someone get to these guys? have they just lost the point? Do they fail to understand that a TV sending random bits of conversation (probably unencrypted) over a public network is the exact opposite of Security.. Really??

Or is it just me?