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To: Gay State Conservative

Doesn’t matter. In five years the world will be awash in encryption they can’t break.


7 posted on 05/12/2016 2:18:00 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Buckeye McFrog
In five years the world will be awash in encryption they can’t break.

It already is. The only reason this encryption is "breakable" is a poor choice for a portion of the key.

A 4-digit passcode is easily breakable via brute force. Even a 6-digit code is breakable, if you can try it often enough.

The only reason fingerprints are insecure is the current precedent in US courts, that say a fingerprint is evidence, rather than self-incrimination.

11 posted on 05/12/2016 2:27:48 PM PDT by justlurking
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To: Buckeye McFrog; Gay State Conservative
Doesn’t matter. In five years the world will be awash in encryption they can’t break.

It already is. Last count: over 880 free and paid apps that can completely encrypt data on the flash drive (although not as completely as Apple's wall-to-wall system), to a 256 bit AES standard.

13 posted on 05/12/2016 2:37:27 PM PDT by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue..)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

That will be the end of the Fifth Amendment or of the law.

However if mass market manufacturers offer encryption - at a reasonable price- that allows legal access only criminals will turn to Apple’s high-profit encryption paradigm.

I can’t imagine what country Apple thinks doesn’t want it’s courts to function.


22 posted on 05/12/2016 3:29:35 PM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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