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FBI Chief Calls for National Talk Over Encryption vs. Safety

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

MrPlow writes:

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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

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Original Submission

• Maybe they should just learn to do their jobs. (Score: 4, Insightful) by dingus on Sunday August 07 2016, @05:34AM

  by dingus (5224) on Sunday August 07 2016, @05:34AM (#384896)

  "In other news, according to the FBI, 650 out of 5,000 safes searched in 2015 were too secure to break open. The FBI says it wants to pass a law that would require all safes to made of cardboard, so that they will have easy access."

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