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The way the bill would accomplish that goal is the problem. A warrant is a court order allowing police to work within a very narrow scope - a single tapped line
by etjossem 11y ago
The way the bill would accomplish that goal is the problem. A warrant is a court order allowing police to work within a very narrow scope - a single tapped line or residence to be searched. It doesn't force the phone company to build a machine that can tap every phone call in the city at once. If that's what wiretapping entailed, bad guys would have stolen a lot of mass-surveillance boxes by now.
This is broad-scope. It would compel encryption providers to maintain a master key to decrypt all traffic running through them. A single security incident with one of those providers would be enough to compromise the data of every customer. Communications providers to large American businesses with foreign competition would immediately become incredibly high value targets for bad actors.
- chris_wot 11y agoI also gather that "technical assistance" means "backdoor". If that's the case, then it's ridiculous and it appears nobody in the U.S. Government has learned from history. When they did this with export controls on encryption the only people overseas who had access to proper encryption were those who were outside the law, and those who developed encryption in countries that don't have restrictions. Of course, I may not be following what is meant by "technical assistance". However, if such a term doesn't mean implementing a backdoor, then if unbreakable encryption is implemented then it won't matter how much technical assistance is rendered by U.S. companies, nothing will have been achieved except wasting a lot of company dollars on a futile effort!