FBI chief calls for national talk over encryption vs. safety

AP Big Story ^ | Aug. 5, 2016 9:53 PM EDT | By PAUL ELIAS

[Swordmaker]

FBI Director James Comey gestures during an address to the American Bar Association annual meeting

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The FBI's director said Friday the agency is collecting data to present next year in hopes of sparking a national conversation about law enforcement's increasing inability to access encrypted electronic devices.

Speaking Friday at the American Bar Association annual conference in San Francisco, James Comey said the agency was unable to access 650 of 5,000 electronic devices investigators attempted to search over the last 10 months. He said the problem is only going to get worse without a discussion about the technology.

Comey says encryption technology makes it impossible in a growing number of criminal cases to search electronic devices. But he said it's up to U.S. citizens, rather than the FBI or government officials, to decide whether to modify the technology to help law enforcement access the devices.

Comey's concern with encryption emerged earlier this year when the FBI engaged in a high-profile legal fight with Apple over accessing data from a locked iPhone used by one of the two shooters in the San Bernardino, California, terrorist attack. The legal fight remained unresolved because the FBI dropped its court challenge after it said it found a way to access the shooter's iPhone.

[M Kehoe]

Sorry Comey, you have been compromised.

5.56mm

[Zathras]

FBI decoder: “We want the right to poke where we want, harass who we want, arrest who we want and Gov protection when we screw up”

[blueunicorn6]

James Comey is a traitor to the American people.

His name belongs beside Bendict Arnold.

[FredZarguna]

Not a chance in the world this Clinton tool is going to get any such authority.

[Swordmaker]

FBI Director Comey wants to open a "discussion" on why he wants to cripple encryption on computers, mobile devices, and tablets by requiring government accessible back doors in all such devices. He does not seem to know that any back door for government is a back door for the bad guys too! Secure Encryption is only binary. It either IS secure, or it IS NOT. You cannot have it both ways. — PING!

Government Snooping
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[ConservativeMind]

He looks like a young Lindsay Graham.

“We want all encryption to be breakable so that the US, crime syndicates, foreign governments, and the pervert next door can see and know all of your secrets. You’ve heard it said that a society with guns is a safe society. I am here to say that a society without any security is a society that gives every bank account and every naked camera picture, to those who truly want it. Please help me help these folks.”

[zzwhale]

COMEY should lose his job, much less preach about PRIVACY

the FBI is nothing more than the Libtard crime scene cleanup squad....

cant Congress get rid of this scumbag...

[eyeamok]

Coming from a Guy with Mountains of Irrefutable Evidence of ESPIONAGE and other Major Felonies against a Political Person that he deems No Big Deal??

We need to ABOLISH THE FBI, Call it the Comey Plan: Complete Dissolution

[Vendome]

Got nuttin to talk about.

[RFEngineer]

No thanks, Jimmy-boy. You couldnt find your fully decrypted ass with both hands.

[Rome2000]

Piss up a rope Comey.

The political class breaks the law and compromises national security, no problem.

Some regular citizen wants to keep a bunch of useless overpaid morons from snooping on their private business, all of a sudden its all hands on deck.

[DesertRhino]

A “national talk” is there buzzword for explaining their demands.
FU Comey. You don’t get to simultaneously import nearly two million moslems from war zones, and tens of millions of Mexicans, and THEN explain to me I need to give up my privacy so you can keep me safe.

FU I wont do what you tell me!

[ColdOne]

Pfft. Comey will you let us see your private phone records on this crime?

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/feb/10/hillary-clinton-foundation-donors-hsbc-swiss-bank

[Cheerio]

Comey has absolutely no credibility left. What happened to those 150 FBI Agents that were going to walk if the AG didn't indict? Huh? Certainly Comey laid out the case for her crimes!!!

The Government's zealous intent on opening your encrypted communications have been around a long time.

STATEMENT OF THE VICE PRESIDENT , TUESDAY, October 1, 1996

Technology has been these technical details way out of date, but you get the jest of the statement - BIG GOVRNMENT needs to know everything. The Government has been in bed with MS, Google and Fakebook.

[ColdOne]

Comey is on the BOARD of DIRECTORS of a Bank donating to Clinton Foundation.

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-36768140

[ColdOne]

More info on Comey. Used to have the link to this article. I see they took it down........................................James Brien Comey, Jr. (52), former United States Deputy Attorney General, has been appointed a Director of HSBC Holdings plc with effect from 4 March 2013. He will be an independent non-executive Director and a member of the Financial System Vulnerabilities Committee. James Comey James Comey Jim Comey is a Senior Research Scholar and Hertog Fellow on National Security Law at Columbia University Law School in New York. From 2010 to 2013, he was General Counsel of Bridgewater Associates, LP and, from 2005 to 2010, Senior Vice President and General Counsel of the Lockheed Martin Corporation. From 2003 to 2005, he served as United States Deputy Attorney General and was responsible for supervising the operations of the Department of Justice and chaired the President?s Corporate Fraud Task Force. From 2002 to 2003, Mr. Comey was United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York and supervised the prosecution of executives on fraud and securities related charges and created a specialised unit to prosecute international drug cartels. Commenting on the appointment, HSBC Group Chairman Douglas Flint said: ?We are delighted to welcome Jim as a non-executive Director and a member of our new Financial System Vulnerabilities Committee. His experience and expertise gained from both public and private sector roles at the highest level will add a further dimension to the governance capabilities of the Board.? Mr. Comey?s appointment will be for an initial three-year term which, subject to re-election by shareholders, will expire at the conclusion of the 2016 Annual General Meeting. The Directors have determined that Mr. Comey is independent. In making that determination the Directors concluded that there are no relationships or circumstances which are likely to affect Mr. Comey?s judgement and any relationships or circumstances which could appear to do so were not considered to be material. For and on behalf of HSBC Holdings plc R G Barber Group Company Secretary Supplementary information: As a non-executive Director Mr. Comey will not have a service contract with HSBC Holdings plc. He will be paid a Director?s fee of ?95,000 per annum, as authorised by shareholders at the 2011 Annual General Meeting. Mr. Comey will also receive a fee of ?30,000 per annum as a member of the Financial System Vulnerabilities Committee as approved by the Directors in January 2013.

[RFEngineer]

Just putting this out there.

If you have, say, a 1MB data pipe, on average, you probably only use a few percent of the bandwidth. You probably have maybe a dozen or so Google searches a day.

What if you filled you data pipe with a lot more info (maybe 3 or 4 times your normal) that is encrypted. What if you had something that generated Google searches, thousands a day, using randomly retrieved words and groups of words off of the terror alert word list?

What if everyone did that, Mr pretend FBI director?

Would you want to talk about that, too?

[ProtectOurFreedom]

The FAA started a series of regional “conversations” about their NextGen air traffic control disaster. They didn’t like how the “conversations” were going when hundreds of thousands of people told them off nationwide. Their response? “STFU and enjoy your new jet highway over your heads 24x7. We will damn well do whatever we want and there’s nothing you can do about it. So piss off.”

[imardmd1]

Privacy is privacy. Always has been, by definition. The Constitution says so. You want to enforce the law? Wait until someone actually breaks it. I know, I know: conspiracy, collusion, etc. Find another way, like truth serum, eh? (/sarc)

Then when they do something bad, hang 'em or fry them publicly so all may see the consequences. And do it summarily.