Is NY State trying to "Out-Libtard" California?
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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Is NY State trying to "Out-Libtard" California?
“5.62 undecillion years is 5.62 x 10195 years. “
Frightening.
That’s how old I feel some days.:-)
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You forgot “people will just leave the state”, which they are doing in droves.
Maybe not explicitly for THIS reason, but it’s just one more straw on a too-heavy load.
I didn’t really want to leave NY, but when other circumstances pressured me to it wasn’t that hard given what was happening - and that was 10+ years ago. Not going back, and even when I visit I make a point of spending as little as possible there. Nearly everyone I still know there is of the opinion “I’d leave but for _____.”
funny
Waiting for the law and order crowd to exclaim:
But if you don’t have anything to hide then this does not hurt you...
Why shouldn’t the government also have a key to my car, my house, my business? All of the criminals and terrorists will have unbreakable encryption so this is just about ensnaring and criminalizing the average citizen.
Only if you have the key. Otherwise you have to try brute force, trying every possible key until you get comprehensible results. Apple uses 256bit AES encryption with a key constructed from the passcode the user inputs entangled with a 128 character internal UUID hidden in the Secure Enclave of the device.
If someone really wants to keep anyone out, a sixteen complex passcode which can use all 223 characters available from the keyboard, would result in a 144 character key to encrypt the data. That would require 5.62 undecillion years to try every single possible key using a super computer capable of trying three trillion possible keys a year (150,000 keys per second generated and compared).
5.62 undecillion years equals 5.62 X 10195 years.
NYS is defining totalitarianism.
I don’t know if Ted would continue his theme on NY or not. It might not be beneficial, but if he were to, he should note this proposed action, plus point out DeBlasio, Schumer, Hillary, Weiner, and others while pointing out he loves New Yorkers with American values.
I guess the only alternative is learn to speak Navajo and become a code talker.
Apple and google won’t comply, so New Yorkers will have to go to Jersey to buy their phones now, I guess.
Can’t be done.
But, they haven’t outlawed cigarettes yet?
Nothing like a good ex post facto law. Why don't they back it up to January 1, 2014, instead. That would generate more revenue.
Certainly, but without the keys, it’s a pain in the *** to do (for modern encryption standards).
Pretty soon it’ll be illegal for two citizens to sit on a park bench having a conversation unless there’s a representative of the government present to monitor the conversation.
It is a NY issue. This is a bill being proposed in the state legislature.
So, you're saying there's a chance...............Case closed.................
Someone should propose a ban on locks for homes and buildings in New York. It's for the good of the people, because locks hinder law enforcement from going after criminals. Idiot liberals.
Provided you can put the final collapse of the universe on hold.
Our resident Apple expert will disagree.
Beat me to it. Now, back to the Trumpkin breast beating outrage.
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