Top FBI lawyer: You win, we've given up on encryption backdoors
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/11/05/fbi_gives_up_on_backdoor_plan/
The response is a world away from comments made by FBI
director James Comey a year ago. In October 2014, Comey decried
the decision by Apple and Google to turn on file system
encryption as a default on devices following revelations of mass
surveillance, complaining that it was impinging the ability of
cops to do their jobs.
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They're just delaying for now. They'll push at future Congresses and
Administrations until they get a backdoor, technical vulnerabilities be
damned. They're about as likely to really give up on that as a top GOP
presidential candidate would be to admit that he's nuts to keep claiming
the pyramids were built to store grain. Uh uh.
--Lauren--
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