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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, Insightful) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Monday July 23 2018, @04:00PM
Sort of. Except that trying to conceal knowledge is generally not possible, and impossible after it has been publicly shared.
But it is not possible to regulate and criminalize the use of knowledge.
The strategy will be that anyone wanting to use encryption electronically will either use a pre-approved (read:backdoored) product, or that the use of non-approved encryption products becomes a criminal offense in and of itself. It will be worded in a way that makes in constitutionally defensible - you have a constitutional right to free speech and to not self-incriminate but you have no right to freely encrypt that speech nor to avoid divulging keys in the face of a warrant. The law will enshrine that.
This is the FBI saying that if "industry" doesn't roll along with developing a product that can be backdoored the legislation will be still harder on the corporations and there will be a regulator which develops the standards used instead of letting industry set their own (with the approval of TPTB).
You individual users don't count or have a say.
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