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> the FBI will rely on backroom pressure to make companies compromise encryption, or even eliminate business models it doesn’t like. What does this imply for F
by dcw303 11y ago
> the FBI will rely on backroom pressure to make companies compromise encryption, or even eliminate business models it doesn’t like.
What does this imply for FOSS? I can't really see the feds organizing a sit down with the maintainers of the hot new crypto algo repo hosted on Github.
- alextgordon 11y agoIn the US, publication of source code is free speech protected by the first amendment. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernstein_v._United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernstein_v._United_States
- theandrewbailey 11y agoSite note: publication/distribution of runnable binary code isn't necessarily 1st amendment protected. There aren't any laws[0] about it, and there haven't been any federal court decisions[0] over it. [0]that I know of. IANAL.