Overnight Cybersecurity: Senate panel unveils long-awaited encryption bill
http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/overnights/276219-overnight-cybersecurity-long-awaited-encryption-bill-lands
The measure, from Chairman Richard Burr (R-N.C.) and ranking
member Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), would force companies to
provide "technical assistance" to government investigators
seeking locked data. Little has changed in the bill since an
initial discussion draft was first made public by The Hill last
week. The measure still states that a company must provide
"information or data" to the government "in an intelligible
format" when served with a court order.
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The obvious outcome of this of course would be the rapid deployment of
even more third-party apps to layer strong crypto without government
backdoors onto the systems that the government mandates must be made
hacker, criminal, and terrorist attack friendly via government
backdoors. Next, the government plans to make it illegal to speak in
unfamiliar languages, and will mandate the installation of cameras in
every room of every home and business that can be enabled under court
order. Just wait until you see what they'll demand in the future for
data collection and remote control from and over autonomous vehicles!
--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein ([email protected]): http://www.vortex.com/lauren
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