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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."
I'm not sure I trust either Telegram or Signal TBH.
Signal I really want to trust, but they want my whole f'in contact book and AFAIK there is no way to just give my friends like an anon ref code or something. Feels creepy and unnessecary.
Telegram OTOH is just crazy crappy. Has anyone ever actually tried to read the API docs for mtproto? It's a damned nightmare to parse it.
I don't trust any service that wants my phone number and list of contacts.
This is just a rehash of the tire make the military hold a bake sale for their F16.
Terrorism spending is defense spending and that is actually a constitutional responsibility where health care spending is not. If they stopped spending on defense or terrorism, the funds would either be spent on other constitutional responsibilities or not spent at all. Likely the later due to the fact that we are borrowing the money in the first place.
I'm not opposed to health care spending but we need/should have a constitutional mandate if done on the federal level. So either convince your state or work on a constitutional amendment.
To make this point crystal-clear: Burr and Feinstein wrote the bill as idiotic as possible, as a threat to extort money from the lobbying industry in return for not passing the law, or watering it down(*).
How selfless of them, they write the opposing politicians' meal ticket!
I'm sure they'll return the favour on some other braindead "policy issue"
(*) In comparison to the leaked draft copy, they removed the limitation to certain investigations (drugs, terror, kiddiefiddling...) so as to have some wriggle-room in the following bargaining process.
If we Americans still believe in Freedom ...
If we Americans still believe in Liberty ...
We should start a definite push in dealing traitors such as Feinstein a decisive blow
They should no longer be allowed to weaken our Constitution
They should no longer be allowed to undermine the spirit laid down by the founder of this great republic
Shame on Feinstein !
Shame on traitors who hate Freedom and Liberty !
Muchas Gracias, Señor Edward Snowden !
CGP Gray just released a really good video on encryption.