Burr-Feinstein Anti-Encryption Bill Is Officially Released (techcrunch.com)

An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Senators Richard Burr and Dianne Feinstein released the official version of their anti-encryption bill today after a draft appeared online last week. The bill, titled the Compliance with Court Orders Act 2016, would require tech firms to decrypt customers' data at a court's request. The bill is not expected to get anywhere in the Senate. President Obama has also indicated that he will not support the bill, Reuters reports. The bill requires legislation requires communications services to backdoor their encryption in order to provide "intelligible information or data, or appropriate technical assistance to obtain such information or data." Sen. Feinstein stated, "The bill we have drafted would simply provide that, if a court of law issues an order to render technical assistance or provide decrypted data, the company or individual would be required to do so. Today, terrorists and criminals are increasingly using encryption to foil law enforcement efforts, even in the face of a court order. We need strong encryption to protect personal data, but we also need to know when terrorists are plotting to kill Americans."

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When are the terrorist plotting to kill Americans?

[Anonymous Coward]

All the time. Seriously, that's what terrorists do. Does anybody think it's a part-time thing or whatever? "Let's see Achmed... Tomorrow we'll go fishing, then we hit the beach and next week we'll plot to kill Americans. But it must be wednesday because I have bingo on monday and a garage sale on tuesday, and the rest of the week I have to fill in for Jamal who's having a jihad on non-recyclable grocery bags."

Woo! BFAEB!

[wonkey_monkey]

Burr-Feinstein Anti-Encryption Bill

I heard they're opening for Aerosmith next month.