Re:Obama Encryption Policy Rejects Laws Mandating Backdoors
by sdenton4 on Friday October 09, 2015 @02:03PM
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It's probably a bad idea to pass policy against passing future policy... That applies both to 'informal deals' and leaving the door open for future legislation.
Really the only reason to pass policy against policy in this case is to score political points with the Hacker News interest group, which is a pretty niche constituency...
> Partial Victory: Obama Encryption Policy Rejects Laws Mandating Backdoors, But Leaves the Door Open for Informal Deals
Compared to:
> Obama Encryption Policy Rejects Laws Mandating Backdoors
It also doesn't sound like a full on rejection, as new information might cause him to change his stance:
> “will not —for now—call for legislation requiring companies to decode messages for law enforcement.”