Encryption will “lead all of us to a very dark place,” FBI director says

[DuckDodgers]

Oh boy, cry me a river again!
 
Another desperate whining by a government agency about encryption, protection, think-of-the-children... blah, blah, blah.

 

The expanding options for communicating over the Internet and the increasing adoption of encryption technologies could leave law enforcement agents “in the dark” and unable to collect evidence against criminals, the Director of the FBI said in a speech on Thursday.

In a post-Snowden plea for a policy more permissive of spying, FBI Director James B. Comey raised the specters of child predators, violent criminals, and crafty terrorists to argue that companies should build surveillance capabilities into the design of their products and allow lawful interception of communications. In his speech given at the Brookings Institute in Washington DC, Comey listed four cases where having access to a mobile phone or laptop proved crucial to an investigation and another case where such access was critical to exonerating wrongly accused teens.

All of that will go away, or at least become much harder, if the current trend continues, he argued.

“Those charged with protecting our people aren’t always able to access the evidence we need to prosecute crime and prevent terrorism even with lawful authority,” Comey said in the published speech. “We have the legal authority to intercept and access communications and information pursuant to court order, but we often lack the technical ability to do so.”

 

Following the leak of classified documents by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, the public has become increasingly wary of overreaching surveillance by government agencies. Anti-spy technology has become much more popular — gaining popular support on Kickstarter, for example — and recently Apple and Google both announced that encryption would be the default for their mobile operating systems.

Both law enforcement and intelligence agencies have complained that such technology will curtail their ability to do their job. In essence, US law enforcement and national security agencies want citizens to accept spying as a possibility and to rely on policy, rather than on technology, to make sure that it’s lawful.

 

FBI Director to citizens: Let us spy on you

[Shalashaska]

He can take that statement to another very dark place, his ass.

[Jerakl]

Most if not all US governing bodies and bodies of power at this point seem to be either ignorant or corrupt, or they just don't care.

[SAV1OUR]

ironic because a year or so ago the american government was saying encrypt everything...

[Arty]

They Started it....

[Jack.EXE]

ironic because a year or so ago the american government was saying encrypt everything...

 

And I shall continue.

[Garuger]

So be it as it has been written in books long since forgottten

[Tocsin_786]

he cant get all his data, these imbeciles need to fuck off.

[Tonylu1595]

Yes, a darker place for him. He now has to work harder.

[bcredeur97]

one word.

 

 

SHUTUP

[NICKT]

I'm all for transparency of the people but it's to come at the behest of a transparent government.

I do not like at all a group asking me to reveal whilst they're holding a closed fist with a hidden deck.

[zacRupnow]

Yes, a darker place for him. He now has to work harder.

not harder, start working

[Bluuz]

Most if not all US governing bodies and bodies of power at this point seem to be either ignorant or corrupt, or they just don't care.

It's because those responsible for relaying information (the media) no longer does its job.

 

You can say gays lead to Ebola and they'll still publish it.

[rockking1379]

one word.

 

 

SHUTUP

three words actually:

GET A WARRANT!

they can still get the damn data. just not in the form of a NSL or some secret court ruling. they might ACTUALLY have to go through the public court system *gasp* where they could be turned down for unreasonalbe cause *double gasp* these fucks might get told no for once (omg one of them just died from a heart attack at this thought)

[totjup5]

They need to just stop