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posted by mrpg on Sunday July 22 2018, @07:40PM   Printer-friendly
from the my-opinion-is-encrypted dept.

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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'


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  • (Score: 5, Informative) by schad on Monday July 23 2018, @02:46AM (1 child)

    by schad (2398) on Monday July 23 2018, @02:46AM (#711026)

    What's wrong with it? All you've shown is that NYC has a higher-than-average (for the country as a whole) ratio of cops to citizens (about 581).

    For your reference, here are cops per 100k citizens for some major cities:

    1. Chicago: 453 (12,244 per 2.7 million)
    2. Los Angeles: 246 (9,843 per 4 million)
    3. Philadelphia: 426 (6,400 per 1.5 million)
    4. Houston: 231 (5,318 per 2.3 million)

    There are the five (including NYC at #1) largest PDs in the US. So it would seem that you have, perhaps unintentionally, cherry-picked the large city with the worst (from your perspective) ratio. The average for nos. 2 through 5 is 322, not too far from the overall US average from the WP list cited by GP of 284. And since the top 5 given here is by size of the PD, you'd expect the "winners" to have worse ratios. For example, Phoenix is the 5th-largest US city, and Philly is actually the 6th-largest. So you know that Phoenix has a ratio far lower than Philly. I also spot-checked a few other US cities -- not included above because I didn't bother writing down my results -- and found this to be fairly consistent.

    In short, NYC is a massive outlier. It is not the norm.

    Gotta say, though, NYC has one of the better (i.e. lower) crime rates of major US cities. At least they're getting some bang, as it were, for their buck.

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  • (Score: 1, Troll) by DeathMonkey on Monday July 23 2018, @05:37PM

    by DeathMonkey (1380) on Monday July 23 2018, @05:37PM (#711335) Journal

    Wow, our Russia fans here will mod up anything even remotely positive towards Russia regardless of how blatantly counter-factual it is.