Re:Attorney General Barr and Encryption
by jakelazaroff on Wednesday August 14, 2019 @12:33PM
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That's my understanding as well, but it's a pretty insulting suggestion. Why is a business's privacy more important than my own?
> Nor are we necessarily talking about the customized encryption used by large business enterprises to protect their operations. We are talking about consumer products and services such as messaging, smart phones, e-mail, and voice and data applications.
It is AG Barr's suggestion (as far as I can tell from the quote above) that these are not regular consumers so they should get "the real thing". Everyone else would get the "inspectable encryption" version.