Except the goal is to force use of backdoored crypto.
There’s a fetish for breaking encryption by the government I just cannot understand. The government has never had greater insight into our private lives then they do now. The NSA can’t even process all the data they currently collect. Even if the neoliberals got their way, and we had a society in which nothing was beyond government inspection, there is no way they could even make use of that data in a way that would be a public benefit. Beyond the loss of freedom, and privacy we lose as individuals, the government doesn’t even gain anything by this. Everyone loses. Weaker encryption, more vulnerabilities for criminals to take advantage of, and more data for the NSA to analyze then could ever be processed.
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Ignorant boobs - those who believe in unbreakable encryption with backdoors.
Cynical asshats - Those who know this isn’t possible and are fine with flawed encryption as security theatre.
I’ve always wondered what the ratio of Ignorant Boobs is to Cynical Asshats.
After huffing and puffing for years, US senators unveil law to blow the encryption house down with police backdoors
The law bill [PDF] is dubbed the Lawful Access to Encrypted Data Act, which uncharacteristically cannot be condensed into a pandering acronym. This latest legislative attempt to make encryption – math – insecure on-demand should not be confused with another bill up for consideration in the United States’ Congress, the EARN-IT Act, which threatens service providers with liability for supporting private, aka encrypted, communications.
It’s also not the Burr-Feinstein anti-encryption bill from 2016 but it’s similar in purpose.
LAEDA is sponsored by US Senators Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Tom Cotton (R-AR), and Marsha Blackburn (R-TN). Graham is one of the sponsors of the EARN-IT Act. And Blackburn pioneered the Trump administration’s rule changes that allowed ISPs to market people’s online data.
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