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Trump's Department of Justice is trying to get a do-over with its campaign to get backdoors onto iPhones and into secure messaging services. The policy rebrand even has its own made-up buzzword. They're calling it "responsible encryption."
After Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein introduced the term in his speech to the U.S. Naval Academy, most everyone who read the transcript was doing spit-takes at their computer monitors. From hackers and infosec professionals to attorneys and tech journalists, "responsible encryption" sounded like a marketing plan to sell unsweetened sugar to diabetics.
Government officials -- not just in the U.S. but around the world -- have always been cranky that they can't access communications that use end-to-end encryption, whether that's Signal or the kind of encryption that protects an iPhone. The authorities are vexed, they say, because encryption without a backdoor impedes law-enforcement investigations, such as when terrorist acts occur.
[...] "Look, it's real simple. Encryption is good for our national security; it's good for our economy. We should be strengthening encryption, not weakening it. And it's technically impossible to have strong encryption with any kind of backdoor," said Rep. Will Hurd (R-Texas), when asked about Rosenstein's proposal for responsible encryption at The Atlantic's Cyber Frontier event in Washington, D.C.
Source: Great, now there's 'responsible encryption'
(Score: 2) by MostCynical on Monday October 30 2017, @11:37AM (2 children)
Respect is often, apparently, bought, or, sometimes, demanded (usually without right).
Of *course* your government respects you.
Do *you* respect the government appropriately? (They can check, by reading your messages...)
*elections are bought, either by convincing by advertising, boondoggles, corrupted boundary management... it all takes money)
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 30 2017, @01:39PM (1 child)
My comment was not targetted at the government specifically.
The point that I tried to make is that I'm more or less forced to open up everything to strangers (government or others) for no apparent reason. They can't know if I'm hiding something for them or it's just none of their business (I have no obligations towards them to show it). Yet, by demanding that I open up things I feel attacked (they don't respect me and the way I things do) and try to take control from me, the actions I do and my freedom to think and act as I see fit as an individual. As soon as I can't keep things to myself I'm not free of my own thoughts any more. That is the point of privacy, not that "I have something to hide".
(Score: 2) by Fluffeh on Tuesday October 31 2017, @05:58AM
Haha, sorry. I really should have used <sarcasm> tags around that bit - I totally agree with you.
I totally value privacy and loathe what is happening with this whole concept of "only people who are hiding something won't share their data willingly". Utter bollocks, but very sadly it's the tune of the last ten years as far as anyone in power is concerned.