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Senators Diane Feinstein (D-CA) and Chuck Grassley (R-IA) are preparing legislation that would regulate encryption and potentially mandate "backdoors." The Senate Judiciary Committee has been meeting with tech lobbyists and at least three researchers to come up with a "secure way" to allow only law enforcement to access encrypted information:
US lawmakers are yet again trying to force backdoors into tech products, allowing Uncle Sam, and anyone else with the necessary skills, to rifle through people's private encrypted information. Two years after her effort to introduce new legislation died, Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) is again spearheading an effort to make it possible for law enforcement to access any information sent or stored electronically. Such a backdoor could be exploited by skilled miscreants to also read people's files and communications, crypto-experts continue to warn.
Tech lobbyists this month met the Senate Judiciary Committee to discuss the proposed legislation – a sign that politicians have changed tactics since trying, and failing, to force through new laws back in 2016. New York District Attorney and backdoor advocate Cyrus Vance (D-NY) also briefed the same committee late last month about why he felt new legislation was necessary. Vance has been arguing for fresh anti-encryption laws for several years, even producing a 42-page report back in November 2015 that walked through how the inability to trawl through people's personal communications was making his job harder.
Tech lobbyists and Congressional staffers have been leaking details of the meetings to, among others, Politico and the New York Times.
From the NYT article:
A National Academy of Sciences committee completed an 18-month study of the encryption debate, publishing a report last month. While it largely described challenges to solving the problem, one section cited presentations by several technologists who are developing potential approaches. They included Ray Ozzie, a former chief software architect at Microsoft; Stefan Savage, a computer science professor at the University of California, San Diego; and Ernie Brickell, a former chief security officer at Intel.
[...] The researchers, Mr. Ozzie said, recognized that "this issue is not going away," and were trying to foster "constructive dialogue" rather than declaring that no solution is possible.
Also at The Hill.
Previously: New Paper on The Risks of "Responsible Encryption"
Report On Device Encryption Suggests A Few Ways Forward For Law Enforcement
Senator Wyden Calls on Digital Rights Activists to Block Legislative Efforts to Weaken Encryption
(Score: 2) by archfeld on Wednesday April 11 2018, @05:42AM (7 children)
As a part time Californian I would like to apologize to the rest of the US for the existence of Senator Diane Frankenstein. Sadly she is from the area I call home for part of the year :(. As much as I love living in the SF Bay Area, she taints everything that is cool about Northern California with a stain that may never wash away.
Diane Frankenstein, Willie Brown, Gov. Moonbeam Brown, maybe there is something to the notion of too much pot causing retardation, or maybe we as voters were just too high to notice what we inflicting on the rest of the US. I think I'll go and vape a bowl and think on that...
For the NSA : Explosives, guns, assassination, conspiracy, primers, detonators, initiators, main charge, nuclear charge
(Score: 3, Insightful) by TheGratefulNet on Wednesday April 11 2018, @02:21PM (4 children)
she's NO hippy. in fact, she's a repuplican in D clothing.
nothing about her strikes me as D-based.
no D person I know respects her, either.
no idea how she manages to stay in office, but no one likes her that I know of.
"It is now safe to switch off your computer."
(Score: 2) by archfeld on Wednesday April 11 2018, @07:13PM (3 children)
No PERSON I know respects her. My dad is a staunch 'republican', a retired Police officer and general conservative of epic proportions and he calls her names I can't repeat here. His animosity towards Feinstein is exceeded only by his disdain of Nancy Pelosi, and the grand wizard of waste Moonbeam Jerry Brown. Those are one of the few points to which we agree politically.
For the NSA : Explosives, guns, assassination, conspiracy, primers, detonators, initiators, main charge, nuclear charge
(Score: 2, Funny) by DeVilla on Thursday April 12 2018, @02:27AM (2 children)
Damn
(Score: 2) by archfeld on Thursday April 12 2018, @04:33AM (1 child)
He often uses the terms Shitsock, Colon Kisser, The Taint Fairy, the Placenta Princess. I am amazed sometimes at what comes out of the 76 year old guys mouth. He was a cop and prison guard for a long career and I guess they must have had colorful discussions on the old cell block. He was to my memory much cleaner of grammar when I was growing up, but now I am living with him and my mother part time since he had a pace maker inserted and he is a lot more 'liberal' in his language, but always very creative. He can swear up a paragraph and never repeat himself :)
For the NSA : Explosives, guns, assassination, conspiracy, primers, detonators, initiators, main charge, nuclear charge
(Score: 1) by DeVilla on Thursday April 12 2018, @05:08AM
Sounds a little like a fellow I knew when he got out of the military. He didn't even really need to use profanity (though he had no problem doing so), yet he could paint a picture that would leave you trying to poke out your mind's eye.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 11 2018, @11:29PM (1 child)
Dianne. The name is Dianne Frankenstein. Not Diane.
(Score: 2) by archfeld on Thursday April 12 2018, @12:55AM
How about Emiel Goldman ?
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=dianne+feinstein&t=hb&ia=news [duckduckgo.com]
For the NSA : Explosives, guns, assassination, conspiracy, primers, detonators, initiators, main charge, nuclear charge