Now we see another democrat libtard move to kill business in New York and drive it to other states.
Posted on 01/15/2016 10:38:03 AM PST by Theoria
A proposed bill in New York seeks to require that all smartphones sold in the state can be decrypted or unlocked and proposes hefty fines for vendors failing to comply.
The proposed law marks the latest effort by lawmakers to make it easier for law enforcement to access and read encrypted data stored on smartphones.
Should the proposed bill successfully pass through New York's state assembly and senate, Apple and Google could face fines of $2,500 per device sold in the state after January 1, 2016, if a retailer knowingly sold a smartphone that could not be unlocked or decrypted by the device manufacturer or operating-system provider.
In other words, there's no requirement for Apple, Google, or device makers to create a backdoor. But if any manufacturer wants to sell a smartphone in the state, the device would need to comply with those requirements or else face a civil suit by the attorney general or district attorney.
New Yorkers who have an opinion about the proposal before it goes to assembly can give their 'aye' or 'nay' via a polling widget on the New York State Senate's page for the bill.
The proposed bill comes amid a long-running debate over backdoors and weakened encryption, in part sparked by Apple's move with iOS 8 to encrypt data stored on iPhones by default.
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good one!
Hey, only criminals and the political resistance need encryption! < /sarc >
Now we see another democrat libtard move to kill business in New York and drive it to other states.
NY values on display
Someone is trying to shake $$$ out of Apple Computer.
They did the same thing with Intel and Microsoft till they toed the line.
Anything that can be encrypted can be un-encrypted................
(Court clerk reading charges) "The defendant is charged with possession of an encrypted cellular telephone within New York City, in violation of public law #...."
Oh yeah.
NY leads in idiotic actions and politicians.
So it will get LOTS of traction.
Yes, if you have acres of supercomputers and months/years/millennia plus reason to devote them to decrypting one well-encrypted message.
Well, there's always "rubber hose cryptanalysis" too I suppose.
Now the 1st amendment.
New York politicians are always out front on the gun control issue by claiming that NY State "reasonable" gun controls are rendered ineffective because NY inmates NY citizens can easily bypass their restrictive laws by purchasing guns in a free state.
Now they want to restrict New Yorkers' access to communication devices the same way they restrict access to guns.
After Mayor Giuliani left ...
Words can’t describe how stupid these people are. Other than this being free speech related, it’s astonishing that they think this will work. They never anticipate changes in behavior and the reactions that *will* occur.
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They could just call Rent-A-Hacker and avoid all of this.
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oh for crying out loud
who’s brilliant brain fart was that???
In the article
“and proposes hefty fines for VENDORS failing to comply.”
This will have a number of results. I wonder how many of them the politicians will say these were unexpected and “unintended consequences”. They certainly should expect them.
* People who want secure communications will buy phones out of state (or country if the feds get their way)
* If Apple/Google comply then LG/Samsung/whoever get more market share
* Companies (foreign and some domestic) stop allowing employees to have Apple/Google devices. Another market share change to non-US companies
* If LG/Samsung/whoever’s secure devices are not allowed in NY (or the US), foreign companies stop putting executives in NY offices (or US offices if the feds get their way). It’s happened with web hosting and will happen with cell phones.
Airbus has claimed in European court that the CIA helped Boeing by illegally tapping phones. There is paranoia that the US gov’t will break the law to help US companies and giving the government keys to “secure” communication is not good.
Secure devices are available. Period. That won’t change. I can make one over the weekend from an unsecure channel on a device and open source libraries. People with a reason to avoid US snooping (e.g. ISIS, child porn rings, mafia, etc) will have secure devices - they can hire lots of people who know devices and crypto way better than me.
NY values ping!
Uh, no. The Apple iPhone encryption is unhackable. It would take about 5.62 undecillion years to try every possible key using brute force to break into the 256bit AES encryption used on an iPhone if the user has chosen to use a sixteen character complex passcode and not much shorter if he's decided to stay with the four digit passcode. Why? Because the iPhone entangles the passcode with an internal 128 character UUID to use as the key for the encryption.
5.62 undecillion years is 5.62 x 10195 years.
There is no way for your putative hacker to find the passcode stored on the iPhone because it isn't stored on the iPhone. It's kept in the processor's Secure Enclave chip as a one-way HASH, and has to be recalculated from the input passcode each time. . . and the encryption key has to be recalculated each time as well.
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