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FBI Director Christopher Wray said Wednesday that unless the U.S. government and private industry are able to come to a compromise on the issue of default encryption on consumer devices, legislation may be how the debate is ultimately decided.
"I think there should be [room for compromise]," Wray said Wednesday night at a national security conference in Aspen, Colorado. "I don't want to characterize private conversations we're having with people in the industry. We're not there yet for sure. And if we can't get there, there may be other remedies, like legislation, that would have to come to bear."
Wray described the issue of “Going Dark” because of encryption as a "significant" and "growing" problem for federal, state and local law enforcement as well as foreign law enforcement and intelligence agencies. He claims strong encryption on mobile phones keeps law enforcement from gaining access to key evidence as it relates to active criminal investigations.
Source: FBI director: Without compromise on encryption, legislation may be the 'remedy'
(Score: 3, Informative) by Runaway1956 on Monday July 23 2018, @12:21AM (1 child)
Let me help you with your faulty memory. When the cops finally broke into that phone, they DID NOT SOLVE ANY CRIME. The phone was not critical to figuring out who did what, when, where, or why. The phone only offered up a few minor details. Had the phone never been cracked, nothing would have changed.
(Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Monday July 23 2018, @01:34AM
They didn't solve it, possibly that's true. And I think they're still working on that one. But the cellphone can be so important, it's called EVIDENCE. And possibly you're saying, cellphone info isn't important. That it can't help our Law Enforcement. Because it didn't help that one time -- when, as I said, there was TREMENDOUS OBSTRUCTION by Apple. And maybe without the obstruction, even the horribly incompetent Obama FBI would have solved that one. Because they would have had the info much quicker. And the crooks would have had much less time to get away.
Al Capone's Vault, do you remember that one? Brilliant TV (thank you, Geraldo). But a little disappointing at the end. Al Capone, very famous crook -- one of the biggest until Hillary came along. They opened up his vault, not a lot in there. Because the crooks had plenty of time -- more than 50 years. They cleaned it up. And no crimes were solved. But if Geraldo came in the 1920s, 1930s, possibly he would find something fabulous in there. That's how it is with the encryption. We can get the encryption info. But it takes a long time. If we have the security info, much faster. So we can get something done!