Technology Security Vs. FBI Wants
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Posted on 01/09/2018 2:21:44 PM PST by Swordmaker
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is increasingly unable to access data from some electronic devices that could help in prosecuting criminals and terrorists, which is an ‘“urgent public safety issue,’ said Christopher Wray, director of the agency, speaking at a cybersecurity conference here Tuesday,” Sara Castellanos reports for The Wall Street Journal. “In fiscal year 2017, the FBI was unable to access the content of 7,775 devices tied to defendants and victims in criminal cases, Mr. Wray said in a speech at the International Conference on Cybersecurity. That number represents more than half of all the devices tied to criminal cases that the FBI attempted to access during that year, he said.”
“He implored technology companies to help law enforcement agencies prosecute criminals by ensuring that there are ways to access secure information on electronic devices with a court order,” Castellanos reports. ” Executives of technology companies including Apple Inc. have argued against what they call ‘backdoors’ for law enforcement, which the companies say create security vulnerabilities that could be exploited by hackers and threaten the privacy of customers. ‘We’re not looking for a backdoor, which I understand to mean some kind of secret or insecure means of access,’ Mr. Wray said at the conference, hosted by the FBI and Fordham University. ‘What we’re looking for and asking for is the ability to access the device once we’ve had a warrant from an independent judge who has confirmed there is probable cause.'”
MacDailyNews Take: In other words, a backdoor.
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: For the umpteenth time: Encryption is either on or off. This is a binary issue. There is no in-between. You either have encryption or you do not.
There have been people that suggest that we should have a back door. But the reality is if you put a back door in, that back door’s for everybody, for good guys and bad guys. — Apple CEO Tim Cook, December 2015
This is not about this phone. This is about the future. And so I do see it as a precedent that should not be done in this country or in any country. This is about civil liberties and is about people’s abilities to protect themselves. If we take encryption away… the only people that would be affected are the good people, not the bad people. Apple doesn’t own encryption. Encryption is readily available in every country in the world, as a matter of fact, the U.S. government sponsors and funs encryption in many cases. And so, if we limit it in some way, the people that we’ll hurt are the good people, not the bad people; they will find it anyway. — Apple CEO Tim Cook, February 2016
Probably should let him put cameras in every room of our homes. We’d all be safer then.
FBI Director Wray calls inability to access Republican electronic devices an ‘urgent public safety issue’.
Fixed.
I am absolutely opposed to Law Enforcement access to smart phones without a Warrant.
How many are non-citizens?
Somehow govt got by without electronic devices before without public safety issues.
Don’t phone companies still keep records of phonecalls? Why do they need access to phones themselves?
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20 years ago I “Trusted” the FBI and would have supported them getting the ability to access cell phones and defeat passwords.
Now I don’t trust em!
Send a few FBI agents to prison !!! Then we’ll talk.
The FBI is pretty much worse than worthless.
These 7,800 devices have warrants, but they are locked with the users' passcodes. . . and only the users know the passcodes. My take is that all of these are Apple iPhones and iPads as those are the only ones the FBI cannot unlock with commercially available tools. Even Apple does not have the passcodes or a means of unlocking a modern iOS device.
Court Order = FISA Court = Wink and a Nod.
They want access to the photos, notes, email, contacts, messages, etc.
Inability to read our minds is a pretty serious problem also.
On Coast to Coast AM last night, a guest predicted that the US public would get fed up with insecure American (branded) electronics and China seeing a commercial opportunity would develop them, circumventing our domestic snoops. I find that prediction highly plausible.
Guess some guys at the FBI are having trouble breaking into their ex-wives phones and things like that.
The government has gone out of their way to earn distrust. The government does more evil than good. For every true criminal case where they need access, in my humble opinion, there are likely dozens of situations where the government is illegally accessing information for Rat partisan purposes and personal illegal reasons.
Fixed it.
Handsets have such a quick development cycle that they can’t insert their own secret sauce.
I’m betting that the Intel “flaw” was deliberate, and someone spilled the beans so they are pretending it was an “error”.
I don’t think the FBI can be trusted to investigate crime or terrorism, and they certainly cannot be trusted to protect Americans or America from harm from any source.
Perhaps if the FBI spent some time prosecuting the criminals in their midst, they would be taken a little more seriously, but until then, the answer is “no”.
It would immediately be used to blackmail right of center politicians and to subvert a lot more than just the 4th Amendment.
Wray, if he’s honest, and that cannot include any FBI agent at this point in time, would focus on dismantling this farce and figuring out how to actually get someone to take over the mission of protecting the USA from terrorism that the FBI ignored in favor of framing a republican presidential candidate.
The US is not the only country that Apple sells iPhones in. If the US gets access, every other government will want it. Shortly thereafter it will be all over.
Apple does NOT want to deal with a back door. There is no way to secure it.
Cook is right.
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