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Attorney General William Barr said Tuesday that increased encryption of data on phones and computers and encrypted messaging apps are putting American security at risk.

Barr's comments at a cybersecurity conference mark a continuing effort by the Justice Department to push tech companies to provide law enforcement with access to encrypted devices and applications during investigations.

"There have been enough dogmatic pronouncements that lawful access simply cannot be done," Barr said. "It can be, and it must be."

The attorney general said law enforcement is increasingly unable to access information on devices, and between devices, even with a warrant supporting probable cause of criminal activity.

Encrypted communications are ones that are only available to users on either end of the communications. The increasing use of this technology has long been coined by the Justice Department as the "going dark" problem.

"The status quo is exceptionally dangerous, it is unacceptable and only getting worse," Barr said. "It's time for the United States to stop debating whether to address it and start talking about how to address it."


Max Kaufman, senior staff attorney with the ACLU's Center for Democracy, responded:

"There is no way to give the FBI access to encrypted communications without giving the same access to every government on the planet. Technology providers should continue to make their products as safe as possible and resist pressure from all governments to undermine the security of the tools they offer."







https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireSt...k-64508008
Ass nugget toadys like Barr in positions of authority are a security risk.
This one kind of follows the "point refuted a thousand times" sort of thing. Having a back door of any kind defeats the entire purpose of any form of encryption because the instant that back door is leaked, the entire encryption scheme is effectively worthless for any reason.

Most people backing the idea of a law enforcement back door into encryption aren't thinking about things like, basic wireless security, encrypted hash database password storage [depending if you consider hash values to be encryption], basic hard disk security, etc. If you could break any encryption with a back door pass, and that pass gets out, basic technologies that offer meaningful security for information technology would become obsolete.
Not to mention cars and home appliances, utilities networks, military, firesale...
(Jul 25, 2019, 18:43 pm)Moe Wrote: [ -> ]Ass nugget toadys like Barr in positions of authority are a security risk.

Agreed.  The way Barr swept Iran-Contra under the rug 30 years ago, and that he's now unconvincingly attempting to do the same for Trump....there's no reason to trust this Attorney General on anything.