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

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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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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 08 2016, @10:32AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 08 2016, @10:32AM (#385246)

    What the Government also has is the power to make life easy or hard for corporations. Tax law. Patent law. IP law. Just to name a few.

    Corprations ( especially software corporations ) are at a strong disadvantage if they don't co-operate with the government - likely making special back doors just for them, and agreeing to secrecy so that only some people in the corporation and some people in the government is privy to the backdoors.

    I get the strong impression the only reason we have so many security holes in our software, and the government is tolerating it, is that those were back doors inserted at Government request - that were discovered when astute computer users noted something amiss. I have no doubt in my mind that Government and the software industry are doing their darndest to promote ignorance of the innards of computer operations using things like "intellectual property" restrictions on disassembling stuff, or even talking about it. Gag orders.

    Now, if the people in Washington started all coming down with illness traced to their food, how welcome would some "law-makers" who pass law forbidding disassembly of food so as to trace the causes of infection be? I think this is a big problem with the American Way.

    We let others make law, we agree to abide by it, but do not hold them responsible for it.

    When it comes to law written like this DMCA stuff I saw them pass, I would love to see the law enforcement people put their guns back in the holster and say "Honorable Congressman.... you passed this crazy law - YOU go enforce it!"