Posted on 04/14/2016 7:59:33 AM PDT by Cyberman
Analysis In the wake of the FBI's failed fight against Apple, Senators Richard Burr (R-NC) and Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) have introduced a draft bill that would effectively ban strong crypto.
The bill would require tech and communications companies to allow law enforcement with a court order to decrypt their customers' data. Last week a draft copy of the bill, dubbed the Compliance with Court Orders Act of 2016, was leaked, but the new version is even worse than the discussion draft....
The senators want to have their cake--by requiring tech companies to protect their customers' data--and eat it too--by insisting that law enforcement can break the code.
According to the best minds in cryptography this simply can't be done – it's not a moral or legislative issue but a mathematical one. Once you introduce a flaw into an encryption system, it's impossible to stop others finding it, especially since you are mandating it is there by law and the prize is free access to all US data traffic, as evidenced in the Juniper case.
Burr and Feinstein don't specify how this police backdoor could be managed and still protect data. Instead they have just said: "Here's what we want – do it."...
Apple, Google, Microsoft and others know they would be gutshot if this law came in, because who is going to want to buy insecure products that any US law enforcement agency can get into at will?
The iPhone would become as popular as a rattlesnake in a piñata, no business is going to entrust corporate secrets to a broken Microsoft encryption system, and Google can kiss goodbye to its cloud business....
(Excerpt) Read more at theregister.co.uk ...
I would have to ask my Security minded friends about this but breaking encryption depending on the strength of it is not as easy as it sounds.
Constitution, we don’t need no stinkin’ Constitution!
Geez. I don’t understand why NOBody trusts the government. They wouldn’t leak the access. And we all know that nobody is smarter than the government. So no hacker would ever be able to figure out access to the governments access point.
Ironically, the government is not even trying to hide their intent to spy on citizens anymore.
The “R” guy thinks it will be useful against criminals. The “D” gal thinks it will be useful against Patriots.
They will have to exempt themselves from the law because as it is written it also bans obfuscation.
Exactly. We're being played, just like always.
Of course not. Because they are both morons.
In fact, the sentence is more effective as : "Burr and Feinstein don't specify how this police backdoor could be managed." Because...well, they're morons and don't have a clue as to what they are asking. They only know what they want and that is CONTROL..
Apple and Google should just shut down until this is taken off the table.
Just announce that they have plenty of money to wait it out, will lay off no one, and just Go Galt.
And let the screaming begin.
Normally true, but basically the encryption would have to have a vulnerability built-in, which would be exploited by others.
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