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.
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.
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?
We likely know that the fey Wray is a BackDoor man, but it’s news that Barr is too.
This will not accomplish what the sadly misinformed AG wishes it to. People use encryption because they trust it. They trust it because they or some trusted agent by proxy can examine the code and determine it trustworthy. He or she can do that because the code is available for examination.
Somebody proposing code with a backdoor cannot make it available for examination. Otherwise the backdoor can be examined and perhaps circumvented. So no code. No code no trust. No trust and people will either surreptitiously use known trustworthy code or stop using encryption; or a bit both.
Can’t trust Amazon security? Don’t buy from Amazon. Worried about iPhone apps with backdoors? Don’t use them, try the more open Android distributions instead. Want a VPN solution for browsing and posting? Use an open source product with endpoints overseas. Email? No Google. Go overseas with your VPN.
Hmm. Will the NSA release a new version of AES that includes a back door?
Comey and McCabe would have loved this.
Encryption is binary. It is either secure, i.e. no backdoors to be compromised by theft, blackmail, bribery, threats, or hacking, or it isn’t.
Just the knowledge that a backdoor exist at all guarantees it WILL be found by the black hat bad guys by whatever means required.
This is why I use Proton Mail.
Servers are located overseas and even Proton Mail hasn’t access to the passwords.
Uses RSA encryption.
Anything based on AES256 isn’t reliable anymore.
Trump probably made deal with deep state to but in the bushie AG. Trump gets off the hook, and deep state runs the police state agencies against anyone that doesn’t like totalitarian government.
Nothing you type, speak, discuss, or create by yourself should be illegal or interfered with in anyway. The only reason for people to monitor it is to control and ultimately make something illegal.
Encryption with a back door is broken encryption.