Senate Bill Might Ban Unbreakable Encryption

[Paul Wagenseil]

A bill circulating in the U.S. Senate would force companies like Apple to cooperate with police, and might ban strong encryption altogether.

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[grumpigeek]

This is about what you'd expect from a bunch of technologically illiterate windbags.

The world's cyber-criminals and terrorists must be ecstatic that politicians in the USA want to weaken encryption.
The Burr-Feinstein bill is the digital equivalent of abolishing the air force.

 

[Christopher1]

The Senate bill has absolutely no chance of getting out of committee. Let alone actually being passed as law.

 

[olg]

Even if the morons in the inept federal government were to pass such legislation, they'll never be able to get the already existing, unbreakable software that exists like PGP -- especially the slightly older versions that we know were not being looked at as potential government no-nos. Keep 'em backed up, or you may well lose your 'right' to privacy under the overzealous hacks we call our federal government.