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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 07 2016, @02:55PM
The FBI's director says the agency is collecting data
Collecting data you say? I thought you guys prevented thousands of plots already, that you already had millions of encrypted conversations into which you could not tap that could lead to attacks already. Attacks that are imminent, thousands of them I thought... I thought this was an urgent issue for you guys, not something where you'd want to set precedent... But that's only if I were dumb enough to believe a word you say, and I'm not!
"Enemies foreign or domestic" and all that...