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California Bill Would Require Phone Crypto Backdoors
Trailrunner7 writes with this except from On The Wire: A week after a New York legislator introduced a bill that would require smartphone vendors to be able to decrypt users' phones on demand from law enforcement, a California bill with the same intent has been introduced in that state's assembly. On Wednesday, California Assemblyman Jim Cooper submitted a bill that has remarkably similar language to the New York measure and would require that device manufacturers and operating system vendors such as Apple, Samsung, and Google be able to decrypt users' devices. The law would apply to phones sold in California beginning Jan. 1, 2017.
Of course, "smartphone vendors" wouldn't be able to decrypt voice calls sent using VoIP software that was encrypted outside their domain of influence.
Wouldn't be the first time you couldn't buy something in CA.
Minimum threshold fixed. Thanks!
California Bill,
Die!
Yours,
Yosemite Sam
Encryption is known to the State of California to cause cancer.
Leave it to an ex-cop to seek powers for law enforcement at the cost of individuals. I am disappoint. Not the least bit surprised, but disappoint. If this passes, I would be completely in favor of both Apple and Google saying "screw you guys, we're picking a new home".
How is the Riemann zeta function like Trump rallies? Both have an endless number of trivial zeros.
I work with about a 120 people at a startup in downtown SF, and we have 4 known Republicans. They've infested everything here.
The State of California is known to the state of California to cause cancer. This is known to the other states as Californication.