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

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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 08 2016, @06:40AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 08 2016, @06:40AM (#385206)

    The enemies can be foreign or domestic. The government is trying to completely destroy the highest law of the land, which sure seems like treason to me.