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Re:FBI tells lawmakers it can't access Dayton gunman's phone by pdkl95 on Saturday August 10, 2019 @03:02AM (#20660626)
> Digital forensics is way outside typical leo training

That's the problem: attempting to prevent important new technology (actually-secure encryption) from being used is not a substitute for updated training that provides "typical leo" with digital forensics skills that are increasingly needed.

Susan Landau's 2016 testimony before the House Judiciary Committee regarding Apple's encryption on the San Bernardino shooter's iphone:

>> "Instead of embracing the communications and device security we so badly need for securing US public and private data, law enforcement continues to press hard to undermine security in the misguided desire to preserve simple, but outdated, investigative techniques."

>> "We need 21st century techniques to secure the data that 21st century enemies—organized crime and nation-state attackers—seek to steal and exploit. Twentieth century approaches that provide law enforcement with the ability to investigate but also simplify exploitations and attacks are not in our national security interest. Instead of laws and regulation that weaken our protections, we should enable law enforcement to develop 21st century capabilities for conducting investigations."

>> "Developing such capabilities will involve deep changed for the Bureau, which remains agent-based, not technology-based."

Re:FBI tells lawmakers it can't access Dayton gunman's phone by wool_gather on Saturday August 10, 2019 @12:24PM (#20662927)
While this is easy to agree to broadly, what exactly does she intend that these "technology-based 21st century capabilities" are? If she's talking about something like PRISM, are we going to be any happier with that solution?
Re:FBI tells lawmakers it can't access Dayton gunman's phone by class4behavior on Saturday August 10, 2019 @01:19PM (#20663292)
That would contradict with her overall disagreement on backdoors in encryption systems.

I think, she was referring to classic investigative measures using modern tools and infrastructure.