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Techdirt covers a new paper published by the US National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine regarding the general access that the FBI and DOJ want to encrypted communications.
Another paper has been released, adding to the current encryption discussion. The FBI and DOJ want access to the contents of locked devices. They call encryption that can be bypassed by law enforcement "responsible encryption." It isn't. A recent paper by cryptograpghy expert Riana Pfefferkorn explained in detail how irresponsible these suggestions for broken or weakened encryption are.
This new paper [PDF] was put together by the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine. (h/t Lawfare) It covers a lot of ground others have and rehashes the history of encryption, along with many of the pro/con arguments. That said, it's still worth reading. It raises some good questions and spends a great deal of time discussing the multitude of options law enforcement has available, but which are ignored by FBI officials when discussing the backdoors/key escrow/weakened encryption they'd rather have.
The paper's suggestions have not been rigorously investigated by those with domain expertise, yet.
Source : Report On Device Encryption Suggests A Few Ways Forward For Law Enforcement
(Score: 3, Touché) by takyon on Sunday February 25 2018, @12:26AM (4 children)
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday February 25 2018, @12:35AM (3 children)
More specifically because it would make it more difficult to plant stuff or otherwise manipulate a person's experience directly by planting false information.
Now, if we were like Mexico, [wired.com] then maybe it would be a good idea for the "good guys" to have indiscriminate access to all comms systems. But that is not really a good point because you wonder how much assistance the Zetas received from, heh, "American advisors."
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 25 2018, @06:10AM (2 children)
Mexico's situation could have been nominally shut down by the US legalizing and regulating criminal drugs and economically shutting down the drug trade (which would probably result in more human trafficking, but not enough to keep the cartels of the size or influence they are today.
Instead we have lots of Pharma opiates being 'illegally prescribed' for their street value inside the US, Weed legal, but only in some places leading to cultivation and sale across state lines, in some cases by cartel growers, and the cartels themselves buying/cultivating/etc other illicit substances as well as manufactured weapons from south of the border and shipping them up into the US for big bucks.
As far as the 'planting of evidence' goes: The US has already bragged they can compromise tech companies without a warrant. Being able to break/weaken encryption would actually give you a better benefit of doubt (although still not enough to win) than the current 'TrustZone/ME/Secure Processor' backdoors, which not only exist but have become pervasive down to the level of microcontrollers (Go look, there is now TrustZone support in the smaller ARM Cortex chips!)
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday February 25 2018, @10:57PM
Yeah, because those tech companies are totally willing to let them, then cry crocodile tears when they get found out.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 26 2018, @02:53PM
The cartels aren't selling guns to the US yet. They're still buying them. I sincerely doubt they're behind any large scale grow ops in the US either, that bs brickweed still sells in places that don't have medical and have to import it at high cost from medical or recreational states.