FBI director: Unbreakable encryption is a “huge, huge problem”

Re:FBI director: Unbreakable encryption is a “huge, huge pro... by sasaf5 on Wednesday October 25, 2017 @12:15AM (#15547415)

"a judge always had the choice to decide whether or not cops get to invade your privacy."

Judges could not, and cannot, force anyone to reveal information, which is different from providing access to physical places and objects.

Strong encryption just gives leverage for what you can store in the domain of your own mind, by allowing you to unlock lots of physical data with some small piece of memorized information.

Essentially, little has changed, except perhaps the ever increasing hunger of the state to control people's lives.

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Re:FBI director: Unbreakable encryption is a “huge, huge pro... by sjg007 on Wednesday October 25, 2017 @01:17AM (#15547679)

They can hold you in contempt for not providing decryption keys. That would suck if you legitimately forgot your password..

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Re:FBI director: Unbreakable encryption is a “huge, huge pro... by dllthomas on Friday October 27, 2017 @06:17PM (#15572648)

Has it been tested whether they can hold you in contempt if you consistently claim to have forgotten the password? In the (ongoing?) case I am aware of the person in question first explicitly refused.

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