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The FBI's director says the agency is collecting data that he will present next year in hopes of sparking a national conversation about law enforcement's increasing inability to access encrypted electronic devices.
Speaking on Friday at the American Bar Association conference in San Francisco, James Comey says the agency was unable to access 650 of 5,000 electronic devices investigators attempted to search over the last 10 months.
Comey says encryption technology makes it impossible in a growing number of cases to search electronic devices. He says it's up to U.S. citizens to decide whether to modify the technology.
Source: http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/fbi-chief-calls-national-talk-over-encryption-vs-safety-n624101
(Score: 2) by Capt. Obvious on Tuesday August 09 2016, @07:40AM
It's true that there are (probably) algorithms and keys that are safe from the NSA. What I said was different. I said there is probably an algorithm/key combo , such that the NSA can brute force it in a timely manner (or MI6 or similar), but traditionally baddies cannot.