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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, @03:12PM
I would suggest they are not idiots. They know the math or atleast the implications of it. They have been trying to put the encryption genie back in the bottle since it was let out. They know that if they can make encryption require backdoors/masterkeys/etc, they either make it weak and useless for us or they make us criminals for using strong encryption. Its a win/win for them if they can convince Congress and the courts to play along. And no matter what, they will always have access to strong encryption for themselves, they are our betters, and must have these powers to protect us. </sarcasm>