FBI wants phone encryption removed.

[bobjustbob]

They say that the new encryption would hamper investigations even when faced with a warrant for the information. He wants legislation to stop tech companies from making available security aps that can't be cracked.

http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2014/10/16/fbi-chief-pendulum-on-privacy-has-swung-too-far/

 

[assari]

What is the CIA's opinion?

 

[Johan]

The CIA opinion is that they don't care 'cause they've cracked the security aps and so has the NSA.

 

[Will E Worm]

Doesn't matter what they want, it's illegal.

 

[georges]

Doesn't matter what they want, it's illegal.

It also happens under the obama administration what a coincidence

 

[BlkHawk]

It also happens under the obama administration what a coincidence

Oh please, can we cut the partisanship on this one? NSA surveillance was started under Bush and passed by both parties of Congress, it was extended under Obama, and again approved by both parties in Congress. When the leaks from Snowden hit both liberals, and conservatives claimed he was a traitor instead of a whistle-blower bringing attention to conduct that needed investigation.

The Right, Left, and Center voters need to come together, and realize that both parties, and both the Executive, and Legislative branches of government came together to fuck us all over on the surveillance matter.

Both sides want to ignore the Fourth Amendment, and the talk of encryption as harmful to the government, or the talk of having a manufacturer made backdoor for the Government is just another attempt to bypass the Fourth Amendment.

 

[Mr. Daystar]

Oh please, can we cut the partisanship on this one? NSA surveillance was started under Bush and passed by both parties of Congress, it was extended under Obama, and again approved by both parties in Congress. When the leaks from Snowden hit both liberals, and conservatives claimed he was a traitor instead of a whistle-blower bringing attention to conduct that needed investigation.

The Right, Left, and Center voters need to come together, and realize that both parties, and both the Executive, and Legislative branches of government came together to fuck us all over on the surveillance matter.

Both sides want to ignore the Fourth Amendment, and the talk of encryption as harmful to the government, or the talk of having a manufacturer made backdoor for the Government is just another attempt to bypass the Fourth Amendment.

Good post, I agree, but would add some swear words when referring to our politicians, and suggest they be put on trial for treason.

 

[BlkHawk]

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) respone to the FBI:

Now just as then, the FBI is trying to convince the world that some fantasy version of security is possible—where "good guys" can have a back door or extra key to your home but bad guys could never use it. Anyone with even a rudimentary understanding of security can tell you that's just not true. So the "debate" Comey calls for is phony, and we suspect he knows it. Instead, Comey wants everybody to have weak security, so that when the FBI decides somebody is a "bad guy," it has no problem collecting personal data.

That's bad science, it's bad law, it's bad for companies serving a global marketplace that may not think the FBI is always a "good guy," and it's bad for every person who wants to be sure that their data is as protected as possible—whether from ordinary criminals hacking into their email provider, rogue governments tracking them for politically organizing, or competing companies looking for their trade secrets.

Full article: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/10/eff-response-fbi-director-comeys-speech-encryption