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FBI director Comey backs new Feinstein push for decrypt bill
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Re: FBI director Comey backs new Feinstein push for decrypt bill
#12“I don’t think Congress intended that distinction but what it does do us is in our most important investigations it requires us that if we want to find out the subscriber info to a particular email to go and get an order from a federal judge in Washington as part of the FISA court. An incredibly long and difficult process. And I’m worried about that slowing us down — and I’m also worried about it being a disincentive for our investigators to do it at all.”
Hurdles to protect privacy are important. If it's not an arduous process we have a problem.
Re: FBI director Comey backs new Feinstein push for decrypt bill
#13Putting in backdoors is sure fire way to kill US based mobile phone producers. Criminals will just use foreign produced phones and only way to counteract that is to outlaw those phones. Can't wait till they criminalize having certain firmware on your phones.
Re: FBI director Comey backs new Feinstein push for decrypt bill
#14I'm confused about this. I'm hurried at the moment, but this seems to a bill that orders tech companies to provide a solution to encryption without having a backdoor? Isn't this like legislating a violation of mathematics or something?
Yes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPBH1eW28mo is a pretty good video for persuading people why this legislation is a bad idea. We might still be able to beat it by rallying support.
Re: FBI director Comey backs new Feinstein push for decrypt bill
#15Putting in backdoors is sure fire way to kill US based mobile phone producers. Criminals will just use foreign produced phones and only way to counteract that is to outlaw those phones. Can't wait till they criminalize having certain firmware on your phones.
It's already a violation of the law to import and sell routers with unlocked firmware
Re: FBI director Comey backs new Feinstein push for decrypt bill
#16> saying such legislation would be “better from a public safety perspective” According to whom, we the people or a bunch of authoritarians who'd like to be able to access every nook and cranny of our personal lives?
Forgive me, as this is completely tangential to your point, but it should be "according to whom". A simple explanation: https://www.grammarly.com/blog/who-vs-whom-its-not-as-compli... :) Call me silly, but I think grammar is important. I hope you don't take this the wrong way! Edit: lol, I thing I made a typo earlier.
"I thing" <-- while knocking OP's grammar? Yes, I'm silly too :)
Re: FBI director Comey backs new Feinstein push for decrypt bill
#17"The high profile court battle ultimately ended after the FBI paid a third party company to gain access to the device via an exploit in the security system." Why isn't this an acceptable solution?
It cost a lot of money, basically (AFAIK on the order of a million dollars to Celebrite).
One funny outcome of the San Bernardino iPhone cracking debate was the Government double speak:
To Apple ...
> We only want to force you to build a custom iOS so we can get into this iPhone.
To DA's across the country ...
> Send us all your iPhones for ... reasons.
But comedy aside, they really do care about the cost / time of un-encrypting things. They're position seems to be that anything outside of your brain (5th amendment and all) should be available with a court order in a reasonable time and at reasonable cost.
I don't agree with that, because manufacturers should be able to produce whatever software they damn well please. But, they have a logical position if you look from the right angle.
Re: FBI director Comey backs new Feinstein push for decrypt bill
#18> saying such legislation would be “better from a public safety perspective” According to whom, we the people or a bunch of authoritarians who'd like to be able to access every nook and cranny of our personal lives?
Forgive me, as this is completely tangential to your point, but it should be "according to whom". A simple explanation: https://www.grammarly.com/blog/who-vs-whom-its-not-as-compli... :) Call me silly, but I think grammar is important. I hope you don't take this the wrong way! Edit: lol, I thing I made a typo earlier.
I thing so too, friend.
Re: FBI director Comey backs new Feinstein push for decrypt bill
#19Diane Feinstein is old and needs to retire. She is completely out of touch with the needs of her constituency, and comes off more like an old guard republican rather then a democrat that she is supposed to be.
She is such a ghastly warmonger.
Re: FBI director Comey backs new Feinstein push for decrypt bill
#20Diane Feinstein is old and needs to retire. She is completely out of touch with the needs of her constituency, and comes off more like an old guard republican rather then a democrat that she is supposed to be.
Her term is up in November of next year. Time to start prepping a suitable challenger.