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posted by martyb on Wednesday February 27 2019, @09:46PM   Printer-friendly
from the We-[want-to]-see-what-you-did-there dept.

FBI: End-to-End Encryption Is an Infectious Problem

Just in case there were any lingering doubts about U.S. law enforcement's stance on end-to-end encryption, which prevents information from being read by anyone but its intended recipient, FBI executive assistant director Amy Hess told the Wall Street Journal this week that its use "is a problem that infects law enforcement and the intelligence community more and more so every day."

The quote was published in a piece about efforts from the UK, Australia and India to undermine end-to-end encryption. All three countries have passed or proposed legislation that compels tech companies to supply certain information to government agencies. The laws vary in their specifics, including restrictions on to what information law enforcement can request access, but the gist is that they don't want any data to be completely inaccessible.

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by driverless on Wednesday February 27 2019, @11:28PM

    by driverless (4770) on Wednesday February 27 2019, @11:28PM (#807857)

    We have reached peak idiocy.

    Naah, we're still on the way up. US politicians can get much, much more idiotic than they are today. Look at examples like Jacob Zuma, Narendra Modi, ... hmm, even with those world-class idiots available, it's actually not that far from what Trump's been up to. So maybe we're actually close to peak idiocy.

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