Law enforcement has always had a love-hate relationship with security and encryption. It's encouraged folk to protect themselves against cyber-threats because of the risks they pose to safety, the economy, intellectual property, and privacy … but they get really hinkey when those measures keep them away from your data.
Proposing a back door to technology that only federal law enforcement can use is a laughable proposition. Knowing the back door is there means that everyone else, from commercial hackers to government-sponsored ones, will be trying to break it. And, inevitably, they will.
Since Rep. Carter (the congresscritter who is in charge of the subcommittee who funds cybersecurity efforts) avows he doesn't "know about this stuff," let me give a simple metaphor. If the FBI said, "You should keep your house securely locked, but we want to have a master key that lets us in if we need to, but don't worry, not only do we promise we'll only ever use it if it's legal and necessary, but we'll hide that key really well somewhere on your property where nobody but us will ever find it and use it to get into your house, we promise" … what would be your reaction to such a proposal?
The FBI used to recommend encryption. Now they want to ban it | Trevor Timm
For years, the agency recommended phone encryption as a defense against criminals. Now, that information has been scrubbed from public view
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