Posted on 08/06/2019 6:33:47 PM PDT by softengine
If you heard the reverberation of a few thousand heads exploding last week, it was the sound of information security professionals reacting to US Attorney General Barr saying that Big Tech "can and must" put backdoors into encryption.
In his speech for a cybersecurity conference at Fordham University, Barr warned tech companies that time was running out for them to develop ways for the government to break encryption. FBI Director Christopher Wray agreed with him.
At this week's big meeting of the "Five Eyes" countries, Barr was in attendance. His demands that internet companies break safe security standards of encryption -- with backdoors, or whatever gets the job done -- was one of the meeting's main topics.
Yep, you read that right — we're doing the "war on encryption," again.
Encrypted communication — the highest standard of security — means "converting the Internet and communications into a law-free zone," Barr told the conference, explaining that encryption made the web into a neighborhood that local cops have abandoned to criminals. He said that encryption's "cost" was measured in the victims left in its wake, and placed blame squarely at the feet of tech companies' "dogmatic" stance, likening the hard facts of computer science to a set of malleable beliefs.
This is wrong.
They want more tools to go after the Bad Guys.
And yet they know all about how bad Hillary, Obama, Brennan and Comey are. And they don’t go after them
They can pass all the laws they want. You can’t defeat physics with legislation.
Encryption is an easily available technology, available to all on an open source basis.
The old Ruby Eidge Barr comes back out? Still nothing done on Comey. Wtf is wrong with these people. They are really rebellious control freaks.
Exactly. Which tells me everything I need to know.
And they PROMISE not to let it get into the wrong hands. (Can you hear my eyes roll?)
Barr is not a fan of the 1st or 4th Amendments. Another bad appointment.
I assum there is already a backdoor of sorts.
Trust your government?
Ask an Indian.
In other news, mailing letters in envelopes will no longer be legal.
Very disappointed. Had such high hopes for a return to the country I grew up in....
And ahhh, why isn’t Barr putting antifa on the domestic terrorist list instead of putting the final nails in the 4A?
Why is the President going along with this?
Where are those FISA documents (unredacted) that were promised?
This.
IKR! And there is no place to escape to now..
There won’t be any FISA documents released. It was all a LARP. They are just dragging it out long enough to keep the base jazzed up enough to re-elect. Which we will, because the other side is utterly deranged.
Mathematics, but yeh, spot on.
Physics, I suppose, if the people get ahold of the means of quantum entanglement at home. Maybe someday.
We all owe Jeff Sessions an apology.
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