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Top Democratic Senator Will Seek Legislation To "Pierce" Through Encryption (dailydot.com)

Posted by samzenpus on from the won't-somebody-please-think-of-the-children? dept.

Patrick O'Neill writes: Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) will seek legislation requiring the ability to "pierce" through encryption to allow American law enforcement to read protected communications with a court order. She told the Senate Judiciary committee on Wednesday that she would seek a bill that would give police armed with a warrant based on probable cause the ability to read encrypted data. "I have concern about a PlayStation that my grandchildren might use," she said, "and a predator getting on the other end, and talking to them, and it's all encrypted. I think there really is reason to have the ability, with a court order, to be able to get into that."

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  1. zOMG by Progman3K · · Score: 5, Funny

    THINK OF THE CHILDREN!

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  2. Re:Or you know... by Tokolosh · · Score: 5, Funny

    We urgently need the technology to hear the voices in the senator's head.

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  3. Give the cops other superpowers too. by frovingslosh · · Score: 4, Funny

    Why doesn't Feinstein also add to her bill a clause giving the cops the power to fly and invulnerability? That is just as possible as legislating that cops will have the ability to break encryption.

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  4. Re:All I have to say is by 93+Escort+Wagon · · Score: 4, Funny

    2345 A3DF 5782

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  5. Re:So... by RabidReindeer · · Score: 4, Funny

    You know it's bad when you have a suggestion for deletion of a freedom and it gets condemned by Dick Cheney!