Tech firms “can and must” put backdoors in encryption, AG Barr says
He's tired of "dogmatic announcements that lawful access simply cannot be done."https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/07/tech-firms-can-and-must-put-backdoors-in-encryption-ag-barr-says/Quote
US Attorney General William Barr today launched a new front in the feds' ongoing fight against consumer encryption, railing against the common security practice and lamenting the "victims" in its wake.
"The deployment of warrant-proof encryption is already imposing huge costs on society," Barr claimed in remarks at a cybersecurity conference held at Fordham University Tuesday morning. Barr added that encryption "seriously degrades" law enforcement's ability to "detect and prevent a crime before it occurs," as well as making eventual investigation and prosecution of crime more difficult.
While on one hand, I can understand the AG's point of view on this. On the other hand though, I wonder what would happen if companies DID include a backdoor for law enforcement.
Might not the companies themselves, realize that they too could take advantage of these "back doors", just like law enforcement could.
Even worse... might not the companies resisting installing back doors, just be a way of ensuring that our own govt. would pass laws that "force" them to install back doors, which could just possibly be what these same companies really wanted to do... all along.