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FBI Chief Calls for National Talk Over Encryption vs. Safety

posted by cmn32480 on Sunday August 07 2016, @02:46AM   Printer-friendly
from the sour-grapes dept.

MrPlow writes:

Submitted via IRC for Runaway1956

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

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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 07 2016, @04:58AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 07 2016, @04:58AM (#384889)

    They won't break your encryption, they'll request the right to imprison you as guilty until you break it for them.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 08 2016, @12:43PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 08 2016, @12:43PM (#385266)

    Sure works great against singular targets but not so well against entire nations. On the other hand the US already has both the largest prison population and highest per-capita incarceration rate in the world...