FBI head: terror fight requires open backdoors to encrypted user data

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian

FBI head: terror fight requires open backdoors to encrypted user data

Sam Thielman in New York
Wednesday 9 December 2015 18.57 GMT

FBI director James Comey called on tech companies to create backdoor access to their users’ data on Wednesday, arguing it was necessary to tackle everything from terrorism to child kidnapping.

In a hearing about the San Bernardino massacre, Comey said keys to encrypted devices should be held by device manufacturers “so that they could comply with judicial orders”.

His comments are the latest in a series of attacks from senior US figures on tech companies in the wake of the Paris attacks and San Bernardino. Comey argued the growing popularity of encryption was making law enforcement increasingly difficult and offered as evidence 109 encrypted messages between a known terrorist overseas and one of the killers in the Garland, Texas shooting in May.

At the time of that shooting, one of the attackers was already being monitored by the FBI and had a criminal record. Comey offered no evidence that either the San Bernardino or Paris attackers used encryption.

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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/dec/09/fbi-director-tech-companies-backdoors-user-data-access-counter-terrorism

[dixiegrrrrl]

1. Horse crap.

It has already been reported that the Paris attackers:

WERE on a watch list
did not use any encrypted phones/emails
had been reported to Paris authorities before the attack

National Spy Agency has been reading emails and copying our phone calls since Bush let them, and they could not find out about the Paris attackers, and the San Bernardino guy was not being watched despite all the red flags he threw up if there really was a serious terrorist watch?
Bullshit.

I have said before and will say again...here, openly.....it will be long before encryption and use of VPN will be made illegal.

Sadly, those of you who understand what is really happening are in a minority.