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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: 3, Funny) by physicsmajor on Sunday August 07 2016, @03:29AM
Never assume.
(Score: 2) by Scruffy Beard 2 on Sunday August 07 2016, @04:49AM
..even "for the sake of argument"?
I read that as a way to reduce the number of variables in a though experiment.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by khallow on Sunday August 07 2016, @01:03PM
Never assume.
If you really are a physics major, then you have assumed. There is blood on your hands. (Spherical cow blood which for the sake of this argument we'll assume is perfectly incompressible.)
But the use of assumption is as a standard rhetorical device. Even if we assume generously, the implicit conditions and assumptions of Comey's viewpoint, we're still left with bad guys having an easier time of getting into our encrypted stuff and no way to prevent bad guys from using or developing unbroken encryption. In other words, there is a huge internal logic flaw in Comey's argument that breaks it.