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The Washington Post has a story which says:
FBI Director Christopher A. Wray on Tuesday renewed a call for tech companies to help law enforcement officials gain access to encrypted smartphones, describing it as a "major public safety issue."
Wray said the bureau was unable to gain access to the content of 7,775 devices in fiscal 2017 — more than half of all the smartphones it tried to crack in that time period — despite having a warrant from a judge.
"Being unable to access nearly 7,800 devices in a single year is a major public safety issue," he said, taking up a theme that was a signature issue of his predecessor, James B. Comey.
Wray was then quoted as saying:
"We're not interested in the millions of devices of everyday citizens," he said in New York at Fordham University's International Conference on Cyber Security. "We're interested in those devices that have been used to plan or execute terrorist or criminal activities."
He then went on to promote the long-disparaged idea of key escrow:
As an example of a possible compromise, Wray cited a case from New York several years ago. Four major banks, he said, were using a chat messaging platform called Symphony, which was marketed as offering "guaranteed data deletion." State financial regulators became concerned that the chat platform would hamper investigations of Wall Street.
"In response," Wray said, "the four banks reached an agreement with the regulators to ensure responsible use" of Symphony. They agreed to keep a copy of their communications sent through the app for seven years and to store duplicate copies of their encryption keys with independent custodians not controlled by the banks, he said.
To me this is more of the utter nonsense the government has spouted. When will they understand that key escrow only works when one trusts the government and the keeper of the keys?
Previously:
(Score: 5, Funny) by realDonaldTrump on Wednesday January 10 2018, @10:12AM (1 child)
So true, we do have big problems with terrorism. But it's not just the terrorists, we have many kinds of crime & violence going on. We need to liberate our citizens from the crime and terrorism and lawlessness that threatens their communities. To restore safety. We need to lock up many, many crooks. People always say that crooks have two phones. One for the bitches and one for the dough, right? Let me tell you, that's a SMALL TIME crook. Crooked Hillary had 13 phones! According to President Obama's FBI, she had 13. You know they didn't look very hard, she probably had more. Maybe, probably, she had a lot more than 13. But the FBI couldn't get its hands on even one. They got ZERO phones from her. They did a terrible investigation! Huma Abedin from her staff said Hillary "lost" a lot of phones. And she smashed many phones with a hammer. 📱🔨 According to the guy who ran her EMAIL server, she would smash them. The only guy in 40 years that said she's smashing!
(Score: 0, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 10 2018, @11:12AM
... Waaw, I've rarely seen so clear a troll desperately to redirect attention this way.....
The Angry Cheeto (== trump, note lack of capital, title and respect), hillary clinton (note lack of capital and respect),... add whatever politician you like to the list and you are still talking about horrible corrupt excuses for human beings whom should have their paymasters logo (your corporate overlords) branded on their foreheads.