FBI: Just Don't Call Them Backdoors (networkworld.com)

Posted by timothy on Saturday December 12, 2015 @03:33PM from the by-any-other-name dept.

sandbagger writes: The FBI still wants backdoors into encrypted communications, it just doesn't want to call them backdoors, and it doesn't want to dictate what they should look like. Tech companies [says FBI Director James Comey] 'need' to change their business models – by selling only communications gear that enables law enforcement to access communications in unencrypted form, he says, rather than products that only the parties participating in the communication can decrypt. He also says tech companies should just accept that they would be selling less secure products.

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Moot Point Now by Wovel · 2015-12-12 15:45 · Score: 5, Funny

Groups like ISIS are now using their own encryption apps so there is nothing that can be done by any US tech companies prevent that. What would the point of making everything less secure be.