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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: 5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 22 2018, @07:57PM
Dear FBI
Encryption is not how we protect us from you. It is how we protect ourselves from the very people you are supposed to arrest and charge with crimes. You can not always do that due to your jurisdiction boundaries, time, and budget. We the people need encryption to protect ourselves. That it makes your job hard I am sorry for. But guess what I do not care about that. I care to protect my family and friend though. These silly ideas make it harder.
Let me quote the law which you and I are beholden to. "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized." Basically get a warrant and even that will not always work as the next one (5th) says.
These are the very tools we the people use to protect ourselves from thieves. You can not be everywhere at once. You can pretend and gaslight us into thinking you can. But you can not we are all very aware of it. A device with a backdoor is just a device waiting for someone to hack and make my life miserable. These are the very tools that have allowed new industries to come into being. To cripple them with silly ideas like backdoors and weaking is foolhardy and does not help. Security is a process that takes a lot of work. To cripple it makes the world a worse place.
Thank you,
The Internet