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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 28 2019, @12:33AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 28 2019, @12:33AM (#807899)

    in other news: the fbi would like to ban latex gloves.
    using latex gloves during a crime prevents the fbi from lifting fingerprints at the crime scene.
    latex glove manufacturing should be banned.
    -
    on a more serious side note, consider all ELECTRONIC encryption done on a vanilla computing
    device as broken. the whole uproar should be considered a incentive to lean back and have trust
    in broken encryption thus giving a simple filter selector argument for all scouped up data from the global surveilance drag net?
    very 'muriken things come to mind:"after the fact", "plausible deniability" and "its eazier to ask for forgivnes then permission"