FBI Director Comey Criticizes Encryption Again – BuzzFeed (Mar 8, 2017)
If ever there were a terrible week for the FBI to restate its case against encryption, this would have to be it, given the Wikileaks CIA leak which demonstrated that the CIA regularly engages in hacking of electronic devices, and claims to have the code for the tools themselves. Any backdoor for the government would be subject to the same sort of breach that has clearly affected the CIA and its hacking tools, so there is no reason to believe that the FBI would be able to protect these tools adequately if they existed. And the broader statement which is in the BuzzFeed headline here about privacy is chilling too. The reality is that there have always been aspects of citizens’ lives which have been inaccessible to law enforcement, not least their private conversations which happen outside earshot of bugs and wiretaps, and protections against self-incrimination, which should logically extend to things like smartphones too. And any tools created for or by the government to bypass such protections are inevitably going to fall into the wrong hands eventually.
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