WTF is wrong with the U.S. Government?
Seriously? First it was Turd Sandwich vs Gaint Douche for President and now they want to kill encryption and drive every single IT company out of the U.S.
https://rietta.com/blog/2016/04/08/feinstein-burr-encryption-bill/
Here's the gist of the article;
The anticipated Feinstein-Burr Compliance with Court Orders Act, an anti-security bill, would require the provision of data in an intelligible format to a government pursuant to a court order (scribd.com). A draft copy was uploaded by The Hill reporter Cory Bennett, though whether it has been submitted officially within the Senate is not yet clear (vice.com).
This bill essentially says you can not have any conversation or data exchange that the government can not access if it wants to. It is the legal culmination of what the FBI has been lobbying Congress for years. If Feinstein-Burr becomes law, it will be illegal to deploy strong encryption without key escrow maintained by each company. Cryptographers and computer scientists near-unanimously assert key backup systems are insecure at scale.
The first read of the bill is chilling. Strong cryptography within the United States would effectively be banned, preventing U.S. companies from building secure software. These companies would be mandated to provide real technical assistance. Unlike the best effort of today, they would be required to give plain-text data in its original format or risk penalties for violating the law.
Specifically, any U.S company would be required to maintain the ability, through unspecified means, to retrieve the plain-text from any data “made unintelligible by a feature, product, or service owned, controlled, created, or provided by the [company].” And the company would then be required to turn over such data in real-time “concurrently with its transmission” or “expeditiously, if stored by the [company] or on a device.”
Are all your politicians that stupid and or corrupt that this seems like a good idea? Holy fuck the U.S. is going to hell faster then I ever would have believed possible.
Seriously? First it was Turd Sandwich vs Gaint Douche for President and now they want to kill encryption and drive every single IT company out of the U.S.
https://rietta.com/blog/2016/04/08/feinstein-burr-encryption-bill/
Here's the gist of the article;
The anticipated Feinstein-Burr Compliance with Court Orders Act, an anti-security bill, would require the provision of data in an intelligible format to a government pursuant to a court order (scribd.com). A draft copy was uploaded by The Hill reporter Cory Bennett, though whether it has been submitted officially within the Senate is not yet clear (vice.com).
This bill essentially says you can not have any conversation or data exchange that the government can not access if it wants to. It is the legal culmination of what the FBI has been lobbying Congress for years. If Feinstein-Burr becomes law, it will be illegal to deploy strong encryption without key escrow maintained by each company. Cryptographers and computer scientists near-unanimously assert key backup systems are insecure at scale.
The first read of the bill is chilling. Strong cryptography within the United States would effectively be banned, preventing U.S. companies from building secure software. These companies would be mandated to provide real technical assistance. Unlike the best effort of today, they would be required to give plain-text data in its original format or risk penalties for violating the law.
Specifically, any U.S company would be required to maintain the ability, through unspecified means, to retrieve the plain-text from any data “made unintelligible by a feature, product, or service owned, controlled, created, or provided by the [company].” And the company would then be required to turn over such data in real-time “concurrently with its transmission” or “expeditiously, if stored by the [company] or on a device.”
Are all your politicians that stupid and or corrupt that this seems like a good idea? Holy fuck the U.S. is going to hell faster then I ever would have believed possible.
