Wednesday, October 22, 2014

Congress tells FBI “zero chance” of law requiring decryption of smartphones

Congress may be experiencing what some would argue the longest period of record-low approval ratings in the history of the United States, but that does not mean the elected Representatives and Senators are not at least somewhat sensitive to the sentiment.



Last week, FBI director, James Comey spoke at the Brookings Institution bemoaning the burden smartphone encryption would put on law enforcement, stating that it “threatens to lead all of us to a very dark place.”



However, it has been shown that at least in iOS, the data on a smartphone, even if encrypted, is not beyond law enforcement’s ...



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