The Bill is an anti-encryption "backdoor bill" that pretends it isn't.
"A temporary password may stop keylogging spyware giving cybercriminals a permanent backdoor into your account, but it doesn't stop malware from spying upon your activities online and seeing what's happening on your screen," he said.
Among the proposed reforms is ending "backdoor" Roth individual retirement account (IRA) conversions.
The 10 loophole closers would bring in $143 billion over 10 years; killing the backdoor Roth Individual Retirement Account would bring in $385 million, according to revenue estimates.
Those rules – which raise similar problems for the UK government's private financing of major infrastructure projects – prevent member states from using private finance and private contracts to avoid putting major public assets on their national accounts, potentially as a backdoor route to cutting government liabilities.
WASHINGTON (Sarah N. Lynch) - Federal securities regulators are probing Chinese and other foreign companies with questionable accounting practices that have used backdoor methods to access the U.S. capital markets, a top regulator said on Monday.
(See story, "Google Hackers' Unexpected Backdoor").
In an earlier draft of the open letter, Zuckerberg suggested AI could even be used to identify terrorists plotting attacks via private channels — likely via analysis of account behavior patterns, according to a source, not by backdooring encryption (the company already uses machine learning for fighting spam and malware on the end-to-end encrypted WhatsApp, for example).
Guinea Bissau offered a backdoor route into the booming European cocaine market and was virtually risk free on account of its weak, easily corruptible government agencies.
Last year Chinese hackers used Gmail's backdoor access system, built because the US government demanded it, to access dissidents' accounts.
But what the program really does is open a backdoor to the user's Internet Service Provider so that anyone can log in to their account without a log-in or password.
