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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."
In the US, just over 3,000 people have died of terrorist attacks. In 21 years. How many millions die from car crashes alone each year? Are we going to start improving our public transit? No, of course not, because that's not the sexy ratings our senators here want.
The really sad part isthat these are people who voted in, they are not dictators or such. A majority of people are actually stupid enough to vote for such idiots, and it makes me wonder where our future is headed. Given the rather extreme views that have become fashionable over the last year, I don't think it's too far off we'll soon be looking at the level of control shown in Russia today. I sure hope it was worth losing our privacy, safety, and fundamental values to save us from those "evil terrorists", who haven't played a role in 99.999% of the population. Might I point out, that's not an exaggeration.
"Set a man a fire, he'll be warm for the rest of the night. Set a man afire, he'll be warm for the rest of his life."
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."
"We need strong encryption to protect personal data, but we also need to know when terrorists are plotting to kill Americans."
Can't have both, buddy.
Then the mere existence of GPG on your machine will be enough to send you to jail. It's that simple, really. Make a few high-profile examples and the populace will get the message. As for those die-hard cryptonerds... I bet Feinstein would love to see them all in jail away from computers, where they won't bother anyone anymore. Make no mistake: those in power are not the made of the same stuff we are. They are royalty, we are small folk. If they have to destroy thousands of us to reach their goals, they will do it. Your computer is powerless against the might of the law. Obey or be destroyed. Your choice.
This is pretty much the nail in the coffin.
If her prior activities that would make an Inspector General blanch weren't enough, this monstrosity is pretty much proof-positive of her loss of mental faculties.
Terrorists and criminals are increasingly using encryption to foil law enforcement efforts, even in the face of a court order.
Yeah, right.
Oh, wait, the most recent terrorist attacks in Belgium were carried out using disposable one time cell phones without using encryption of any kind.
Who are those politicians are trying to fool? Why the terrorists cannot create their own encrypted applications which do not save any data whatsoever? I mean we already have Telegram, Wire and many other apps with P2P encryption and timers which pretty much guarantee no party will ever be able to restore or decrypt the content of conversations.
Burr-Feinstein Anti-Encryption Bill
I heard they're opening for Aerosmith next month.
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
The proposal itself may be awful, the likely consequences would be good. This could very well be the final push for many companies processing personal information to finally leave the US and settle in a country less hostile to privacy.
Make a few high-profile examples and the populace will get the message.
I don't necessarily disagree with your premise, but as a counter to this particular point... it didn't work with piracy, so why with encryption?
Only crack the nuts that crack. You don't put the ones that don't crack in the sack.
Sometimes they plot to kill other people as well... just sayin'.
Only crack the nuts that crack. You don't put the ones that don't crack in the sack.
The really sad part isthat these are people who voted in, they are not dictators or such. A majority of people are actually stupid enough to vote for such idiots, and it makes me wonder where our future is headed. Given the rather extreme views that have become fashionable over the last year, I don't think it's too far off we'll soon be looking at the level of control shown in Russia today. I sure hope it was worth losing our privacy, safety, and fundamental values to save us from those "evil terrorists", who haven't played a role in 99.999% of the population. Might I point out, that's not an exaggeration.
It's not just stupid people. It's also people who don't understand the issues because they have never studied encryption or computer security. Smart people and policy-makers.
Feinstein is appalling but not more appalling than the idiots in the state of California - who supposedly are so intelligent and cutting-edge - who elected her and have kept her in office.
The fact of the matter is that democracy in the United States is completely broken. And most people are profoundly deluded. They get up and go to work each day in a state of delusion about what is going on in their community and their state and country, as long as there is enough crap to distract them. As the saying goes: Keep them doped on religion, sex, and tv. Only perhaps science and self-righteous PC liberalism is the new religion, and video games and other things compete with tv.
It sickens me to see the anti-Trump sentiment being vocalized especially by deluded idiots who have no solution whatsoever for the serious problems occurring other than to continue being deluded. Zuckerberg had the audacity to criticize immigration policy as he lives in a $10 million home, has private security, flies around the world and stays in 5 star hotels. Yeah, try living in the neighborhoods which are being destroyed by the hell that America is becoming and then proffer that self-righteous tripe. But its never the blood of the "humanitarians" that is spilled, is it?
Because while car crash deaths are still a real big killer, the IS has made MASSIVE strides in reducing them, and that has been done in no small part by legislation of new safety features. Deaths both in terms of absolute numbers and deaths per 100 million miles driven have been dropping consistently since around 1970.
Not agreeing with this bullshit encryption bill, just that your example may not be showing what you want it to show.
How about you make a law to make all terrorists report themselves at the nearest police stations to be executed! That would be even easier for you, right?
Of course, not reporting in is punishable by death.
Dude, this is already going to happen with all this "smart cars" revolution.
Company and government-issued phones should have to have some sort of MDM product tied to them. If San Bernardino had used something like Blackberry ES to manage their iPhone (yes, BES supports Android and iPhone) their IT department could have popped the phone open as fast as the guy assigned to the task could log into BES and find the device.
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.
Plead 5th amendment. Or "I'm just transporting this USB stick".
If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker would destroy civilization.
Senators Richard Burr and Dianne Feinstein are neither the oppressive arm of Government nor are they idiots.
They are, however, profoundly ignorant of how things work in the real (non-Beltway) world. They are of the same ilk that cannot understand that email kept on a small private server (small target) with a staff that gives a damn is quite likely a lot more secure than on a "secured government server."
They must be thinking, "the company will provide a back door and keep it secret." What a great concept. Unfortunately that idea belongs to a world where it took a whole government and a bevy of codebreakers to crack a simple substitution code - the Enigma codes. Today, a single hacker can put together thousands of cpu core resources to attack any system. If there exists a back door, if there is any way into an encrypted system, some 14 year old in Romania or Great Britian (or China!) will find it. Consider the fact that the FBI hired such to go after in iPad, and the thing was compromised in short order.
And lest we think that this is a good thing, so that governments can go after terrorists, let me pose a question on a personal level: "How big is your bank account? Would you mind if you woke up some morning and found it empty?"
There are thousands of terror targets and probably tens of thousands of would-be terrorists. There are quite literally billions of targets in the private sector. It won't make the even news for very long if Mr. Smith gets cleaned out, but to Mr. Smith it may seem pretty terrible.
And there is a worse side: Let's say that the government requires back doors everywhere. Does that mean that terrorists are going to give up and throw up their hands figuratively? Hell, no. Any competent programmer can come up with an encryption scheme not known to the government, perhaps with vulnerabiilities which are also unknown to the government. The good guys (Us!) have opened our bank accounts to the script kiddies, and the bad guys will go right on using strong encryption. The government will be right back where they are now, having to hire a hacker to break that encryption.
We will have given up the keys to our doors without putting a small dent in terrorism.
Not a good choice, imo.
Don't take life too seriously; it isn't permanent.
And then the world wide tech sector would get a boost , and the US tech sector go bust.
What ? I never said I carred for the US tech sector. I am seeing this from the perspective of somebody in another country tech sector withshing that US politician get what they want : give us all non US firm a lot of jobs.
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We do - but we cannot have both.
Choose wisely.
i will have to cancel my credit cards and get new ones, and never buy anything online ever again,
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You can't put the encryption genie back in the bottle. You look really dumb when you tell people you can.
I seriously just laugh every time I see this kind of foolish uneducated thinking. Don't senators have technical advisers that tell them: IT CAN'T BE DONE.
It's not even really a difficult concept to grasp, in my opinion.
how many times has a politician said one thing and then did the exact opposite when it comes time to put it down on paper
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Feinstein is appalling but not more appalling than the idiots in the state of California - who supposedly are so intelligent and cutting-edge - who elected her and have kept her in office.
Yep. Feinstein gets votes on two bases; her vagina, and being anti-gun. There's literally no other reason to vote for her, because everything she does is harmful. She's being supported by superannuated spoiled children who want a nanny state.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Leaving the US for a privacy Shangri La sounds appealing, but where is this place?
By my estimations, it's a small number of European countries, most of which might face EU regulations which could end up being nearly as "bad" as the US for no real gain.
Most other places don't have enough privacy protections (crooked, authoritarian governments) or if they do, are too small to resist the diplomatic pressure the US could bring to bear on their privacy practices. Further, they may be small enough that the Chinese could be tempted to tamper with their manufacturing to create hardware back doors, as one disincentive the Chinese have is an open confrontation with the US over manufacturing.
The other unintended consequence could possibly US import restrictions on the devices now that they are a product of a "foreign" company.
An alternate name for the bill could be the Burr-Fenstein Fucking Waste of Public Time And Money act.
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Wouldn't it just be simpler to pass a law requiring all terrorists to report what they are going to do 24 or 48 hours before they do it?
That Dianne Feinstein is the epitome of evil, unamerican political criminals?
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That means 100% of the reasons people vote for her are harmful. Adding sexism and unrepentant hatred of the US Constitution to the mix certainly doesn't help.
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Just googled her to see what she looks like... I find it hard to believe her vagina gets her anywhere *shudder*
In all likelihood, they (assuming they actually had any hand in it at all) wrote poorly because they don't have a single f'ing clue how any technology works. They don't understand the danger of backdoors in crypto -- if "they" can get in, anyone else can too.
Exactly, any decent terrorist/crook will use strong encryption software he obtained from elsewhere. So, despite all the backdoors installed by corporations in their products/servies, the govt. still won't be able to read his files or his communications. The only thing this bill will accomplish is giving backdoors to govt to spy on law-abiding people.
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 !
Just adopt the George Costanza approach with her.
Anyone remember the "Keys under the doormat" paper from '97? The authors came back last year with a new paper here: https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/97690/MIT-CSAIL-TR-2015-026.pdf
I'm going to out and say it's required reading for everyone.
The government cannot require or prohibit any specific design or operating system for any covered entity to use in complying with a court order.
I.e. nothing is out-of-bounds when complying? That seems to conflict with this:
No one is above the law. Court order recipients must comply with the rule of law.
But what if providing the data requires breaking existing laws? I'll be the first to admit I don't know legalese, but this sure is confusing.
The Russians have won. They have made the world a cesspool of distrust, greed, fear and hate.
and not Orwellian, like, say, the PATRIOT act.
Terrorists and criminals are increasingly using encryption to foil law enforcement efforts, even in the face of a court order.
Given that the majority of terrorist leadership structure (technocal and non-technical) isn't domestic, and they are completely capable of writing their own encryption apps, and hosting the services outside the US,
1. How does the bill reach those users and servers Answer: It doesn't
2. How does the bill enhance/protect/maintain security of users. Answer: It doesn't
3. How does the bill enhance/protect/maintain the security of the nation: Answer: there is only a temporary benefit until terrorists get educated about the fact the government has a back door into every phone sold or service operated in the US. Terrorists will be directed to an app that does not have a back door, and is not in the jurisdiction of the bill. Instead of the current limited surveillance capability, the communications will go completely dark.
4. How does the bill deter/inhibit the security of the terrorists: Answer: Short-term detriment until they can switch the naive users to their app, long-term benefit after.
5. How does the bill enhance/protect/maintain the security of the terrorists: Answer: provides motivation to create their own app, provides backdoors in all phones/services that can be potentially exploited by terrorist organizations and other governments, like Russians and the Chinese.
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On May 12, 2011, Feinstein cosponsored PIPA.
I think this person needs to lose an election.
"Live as if you'll die tomorrow." Ridiculous. You could die later today.
...very few encrypt compared to that.
Very few people buy things online? I think the more accurate view is that very few people realize how important strong encryption is to what they already do.
They must be thinking, "the company will provide a back door and keep it secret." What a great concept. Unfortunately that idea belongs to a world where it took a whole government and a bevy of codebreakers to crack a simple substitution code - the Enigma codes.
It's not about that. If you read the discussion draft of the proposed bill you will find the salient part is Sec. 2.4 which puts the onus of data decryption onto the service provider. There is nothing about how to implement it, just that if you encrypt it, it better be intelligible when we ask for it. There is a discussion about privacy of the individual, but it's secondary to access by the state. I uncertain if a judicial order is the same as a warrant for telecommunications intercepts however I still don't see any time limits imposed either.
And lest we think that this is a good thing, so that governments can go after terrorists, let me pose a question on a personal level: "How big is your bank account? Would you mind if you woke up some morning and found it empty?"
This is the whole point about these types of laws. It's not about "If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear" it's more like "If you have nothing to loose, then you have nothing to hide".
With which we come to the hidden kicker in this proposed bill, the unmentioned meta-data retention clauses. Has anyone noticed that?
Section 4. 1. puts the onus on a license to collect all IP address, port number, routing, endpoints, protocols, both sides of a NAT, unique device identifiers (MAC address), the time, quantity and QOS information all time stamped to UTC, and more. These are targeted at Telecommunications companies, they require a warrant, but imply that the data is to be collected.
That's probably the elephant right there, it's a much larger scope than saying - hey tell us what this says. I'm unsure if it is a 4th amnd violation 'reasonable' to have a third party record your communications endpoints, it's probably happening anyway and that could be the 'reasonable' justification. Again the duration is not mentioned and I'd suggest any service provider who offers a service that only maintains meta data for your last billing cycle may be a feature of providers worth having.
Hell, no. Any competent programmer can come up with an encryption scheme not known to the government, perhaps with vulnerabiilities which are also unknown to the government.
Nope, they have that covered too in Sec 3.A.2 the orders can be issued against people providing the software. Surely this is a 5th Amnd violation. How can you be compelled to information that may incriminate you.
The good guys (Us!) have opened our bank accounts to the script kiddies, and the bad guys will go right on using strong encryption.
No, the point here is that your metadata will be stored in unencrypted form. The same demands were made of Australians because it is wasn't mandatory to encrypt the data, however it was mentioned in the bill that it should be encrypted.
The US bill doesn't even mention encrypting citizen meta data that is being recorded. This is an obvious honeypot for organized crime and as I have constantly repeated, fraud against citizens has no impact on the state, so they have little incentive to protect you from it in their quest to know everything about you.
The government will be right back where they are now, having to hire a hacker to break that encryption.
If the bad guys have their own encryption software then there is simply no access to their communications. The demands are on providers to decode communications when they receive a judicial order and the endpoints, volume and duration when issued a warrant.
We will have given up the keys to our doors without putting a small dent in terrorism.
Not a good choice, imo.
My ism, it's full of beliefs.
I've learned that any bill with the word Feinstein attached to it will be based on ignorance and fear. How this idiot keeps getting re elected is beyond my comprehension.
On May 12, 2011, Feinstein cosponsored PIPA.
I think this person needs to lose an election.
Me too, but why do you think that the morons who elected her will grow a brain cell before the next election.
Do you have ESP?
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CGP Gray just released a really good video on encryption.
Different government agencies use different price per human life saved methodologies. Most agencies, such as the car regulation, pollution, etc. regulate only if the cost is less than $10 million per life saved. The EPA sets it at 7.4 million. Some agencies won't even require safety regulations if the cost exceeds $2 million.
Terrorism based agencies are a radical shift. When terrorism is involved, the idiots are willing to spend up to $180 million to save a single life. (https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/07/costbenefit_ana.html)
I propose that we legislate a maximum cost per human life saved at $20 million (adjusted for inflation, annually). This would wipe out most of the stupid expenses by federal anti-terrorism agencies, but still allow them to do their job.
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The tobacco industry deliberately plotted to kill Amecicans in way larger proportion that the 9/11 Saudis. The food industry via sugar over intake also kills much more people than terrorists. The government kills much more Americans with unjustified wars.
Actually anything threatening the top wealthy 1% is considered as much more dangerous than when threatening the 99% rest.
Is in US House or Senate - No trust at all, should probably be placed in a padded room for their own protection
Is in the state House or Senate - Very little trust but they likely don't need to be in a padded room
I heard someone once say that a person runs for local or state office only because their deepest darkest secret keeps them from running for higher office. Probably some truth in that somewhere...
While you're right about the status quo, you're wrong about what attitude to take regarding it.
I do not want your cheap brainburning drugs. They are useless for work. And I am a working man today.
Ever see the little padlock on your URL bar? Yeah.
I do not want your cheap brainburning drugs. They are useless for work. And I am a working man today.
Make no mistake here: sending a bunch of drug users to prison did not stop drugs.
They know it doesn't stop drugs. They just don't care.
I do not want your cheap brainburning drugs. They are useless for work. And I am a working man today.
And a one-time pad is unbreakable by any means except obtaining the one time pad if it is not misused.
Unbreakable encryption is within the technical reach of practically anyone.
It's not even hard. Exchange of the one time pad is inconvenient.
--PM
I recall her stance on abortion being a bigger issue than guns in her first election (in 1992). Actually I don't remember guns coming up at all back then, but maybe you remember that.
She also has incumbent inertia going for her now, which shouldn't be underestimated.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
Once elected, congresspersons and senators can do what they please until the next election with no fear of recall. This means citizens have to vote them out in the next election cycle. Voters have short memories unless the transgression was particularly egregious.
There are two things missing at the federal level which would help ore representative government be more responsive to the peoples wishes:
1. Recall of congresspersons and senators with a 66% super majority.
2. Initiative and Referendum.
If aliens don't need encryption to coordinate the extermination of all humans neither do terrorists.
Because this bill would require any vendor, writer or provider of encrypted communications to have a way to decrypt it would also require any form of TLS connection to not have perfect forward secrecy. This would mean having like in the earlier DOD era, having a separate crypto' suites for US use that exclude the option.
I mention this because it is not going to happen, the cat is out of the bag and it would require rewriting the core of every TLS implementation everywhere.
Last night I figured out how to extort money out of big tech companies if the Feinstein-Burr bill becomes law. It requires that any company which has provided encryption technology render technical assistance in order to provide unencrypted versions of information in response to court orders.
So, here's what you do:
1) Choose a company which provides any existing encryption products which don't have backdoor and will host data for you in some form. Good choices might be Apple, Google, or Microsoft. For Microsoft you can use their BitLocker product to encrypt things. For Apple or Google, you can just use OpenSSL's command line to do the encrypting. There are likely some other companies that would work, but those are the first which come to mind.
2) Find a co-conspirator who is willing to sue you.
3) Create some key piece of information which is relevant to the potential court case.
4) Choose an amount of money which is quite large, but is within the potential budget of the company.
5) Do some calculations like this spread sheet does: https://docs.google.com//1hsvO2RBXWYxMMMCaDx5CASPy2l/edit (although I'm not sure these numbers are correct because I'm not sure they account for the efficiency of doing this with GPUs instead of CPUs) to figure out how long the key will have to be to be in order to cost the target amount of money. Assuming their figures are correct, then 86 bits would be the correct answer.
6) Choose an encryption function which uses more bits than that. So let's go with 128-bit AES for this example.
7) Encrypt the key piece of information with it.
8) Make a second file which contains notes about what algorithm is used and contains all but your target number of bits of the key. So in this case, 128-86 yields 42, so we put the first 42 bits of the key in the file.
9) On the storage provided by your target company, store the encrypted data and the unencrypted second file.
10) Ensure that all other copies of the data and the key have been completely and utterly destroyed, but keep references to its existence.
11) Proceed with the lawsuit and have your co-conspirator find out about the file in discovery.
12) Have them obtain a court order requiring the target company render technical assistance. Now, to comply with the court order, they must spend approximately $10 million dollars to brute force the remaining bits of the key.
13) Offer to have talks about settling the lawsuit, but only if the company is also involved in those talks.
14) Hint that this could all go away for a much smaller amount, like only $100,000 especially if the target company were willing to pay.
15) Once they pay up, drop the lawsuit thus vacating the court order.
Some of these are pretty good, I must say. For a chuckle, anyway.
This is slashdot. Owning a gun is supposed to be terrible here.
1) Diane Feinstein was born in 1933.
2) Israel was founded in 1948.
3) You're an idiot.
Chuuch. Preach. Tabernacle.
backdoors to govt to spy on law-abiding people
...or less-than-tech-savvy criminals, which many are.
But it is beside the point. This bill is obviously designed without any regard to the damaging impacts it will actually have and with no hope of producing any real quantity of useful intel. Pure posturing.
Someone had to do it.
Politicians do weird thinks like sponsor/vote-for bills they don't want passed for image reasons and or to do cross party vote trading. The trick is playing chicken with the number of votes required to pass or knowing you can bury it later in committee if it happens to pass.
The problem is things like this are often posturing.
As I recall, the fifth amendment *does* technically still work if you're the one they're going after and are the one holding the key.
Doesn't work so well if someone else is holding the key or if you're the one holding the key for someone else. And let's face it. That's 99% of encryption in use today. Someone else holds the key.
The single biggest threat this law creates is the need to have passwords a company can decrypt. If a court order requests the password of an account, a company is required to provide said password. This means you must now store your user passwords in a method you can decrypt. Nope, nothing wrong with that! I guess Senator Burr was getting jealous of all the attention the NC GOP was getting from HB2 that he wanted to try and upstage them.
It is? I've been coming here since 2002. I dont remember anyone turding on gun ownership. I would think most of the crusty old beards here would right at home with the cold, unyielding machined reliability of guns. Along with the personal responsibility of owning such machines that are every bit as lethal as a car.
How could both those things not be right up the alley of everyone here?
Since when have slashdotters ever clamored for the government to protect them from themselves?
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Maybe but it sure seems like only the real wack jobs make it to the national level.
That's just because they get more publicity. Trust me that the local guys are every bit as weird as the national guys and frequently even weirder.
" ... We need strong encryption to protect personal data, but we also need to know when terrorists are plotting to kill Americans."
Translation: "We are vegans that eat meat."
Diane "Banker-Buttlicker" Feinsten, the dragon lady with no fucking heart.
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Why the hell Californians keep electing her I'll never understand.
Do you think it might have something to do with the influence of money in US elections? ;)
This isn't about terrorism or surveillance. This is much more boring and insidious. Look at her donor list. Five defense contractors in the top 15 each with "cyber war" divisions. Someone will have to build this new backdoored encryption and it will cost at least a few hundred million. Northrop Grumman is one of her and Burrs top donors. I predict NG wins a very carefully run competition for the contract.
refactor the law, its bloated, confusing and unmaintainable.
Won't someone just vote her pernicious backside out of office already? How much more damage must she do to the US before we wise up?
as a resident of California I can not support or approve of this action by Feinstein.
We also need, more importantly, a GOVERNMENT WE CAN TRULY TRUST! And, we need that FIRST. And, we need it WITHOUT the greedy, manipulative fingers of corporations.
Self-importance and self-indulgence is the root of ALL evil.
The bill appears to cover companies who make things. Is there any mention of what individuals may do? The CALEA act provides that telecommunication providers must allow law enforcement to monitor communications involving a specific person, but doesn't forbid the use of ciphers by the people at the end points.
"When you have eliminated the unacceptable, whatever is left, however improbable, must be the truthiness" - Holmes