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The new FBI Director Christopher Wray has been repeating the broken rhetoric of the Crypto Wars:
In recent testimony before Congress, the director of the FBI has again highlighted what the government sees as the problem of easy-to-use, on-by-default, strong encryption.
In prepared remarks from last Thursday, FBI Director Christopher Wray said that encryption presents a "significant challenge to conducting lawful court-ordered access," he said, again using the longstanding government moniker "Going Dark."
The statement was just one portion of his testimony about the agency's priorities for the coming year.
The FBI and its parent agency, the Department of Justice, have recently stepped up public rhetoric about the so-called dangers of "Going Dark." In recent months, both Wray and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein have given numerous public statements about this issue.
Remember to use encryption irresponsibly, and stay salty, my FBI friends.
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(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 12 2017, @01:43PM
Gladly. And just because a project's PR is stating one thing, it doesn't necessitate that the stated words are held truly by some or even all of the project's participants.
If you were working on projects that could be used to undermine the power of a crazed, murdering lunatic, would you be open and upfront about how you viewed the lunatic's diktats especially if some applied to your work?
I'll worry about the YBTI projects being tainted by theftmongers when they, say, start doing work exclusively for the IRS.