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What does the law require, exactly? That service providers build in the ability to let law enforcement start monitoring specific communications? Or that they bu
by rebuilder 8y ago
What does the law require, exactly? That service providers build in the ability to let law enforcement start monitoring specific communications? Or that they build in the ability to decrypt messages already sent, if requested to do so by law enforcement?
- zmmmmm 8y agoBottom line, they can ask a technology manufacture to do anything (literally last time I looked the bill had the phrase "do a thing") and they have to do it. But the specific intent is to have the manufacture deliver targeted malware to people they want to monitor. A warrant is not required, but a crime with a jail term of 3 or more years must be involved ("involved" because you do not have to be a suspect, just useful to the investigation to receive the malware).
- manicdee 8y agoAnd all that is required from the agency making the claim is their word. This assertion of justification is untraceable, unverifiable, the tech employee can’t talk to anyone about it, and there are penalties in a secret court for refusing to perform as demanded.