Attorney General will ask Zuckerberg to halt plans for end-to-end encryption

Re:Attorney General will ask Zuckerberg to halt plans for en... by godelski on Thursday October 03, 2019 @05:55PM (#21152657)

I think your point is very important. Forbidding e2e encryption only enables mass surveillance. It does not affect traditional investigative work. There are other existing tools for the job.

Anyone remember the FBI and Apple case a few years back? How quickly the FBI hacked the phone after Apple wouldn't cave? Other tools exist to do targeted surveillance and targeted attacks. Only authoritarians want mass surveillance.

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Re:Attorney General will ask Zuckerberg to halt plans for en... by crummy on Thursday October 03, 2019 @07:41PM (#21153428)

> Anyone remember the FBI and Apple case a few years back? How quickly the FBI hacked the phone after Apple wouldn't cave?

To be fair, Apple is working to ensure FBI won't be able to do that next time.

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Re:Attorney General will ask Zuckerberg to halt plans for en... by godelski on Thursday October 03, 2019 @08:38PM (#21153813)

I'm not saying anything bad about Apple here... I'm not sure what your comment is about. I'm actually saying (as an anti-Apple person) "good job Apple".

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