Republicans Push Bill Requiring Tech Companies Give Encrypted Data

Re:Republicans Push Bill Requiring Tech Companies Give Encry... by DoubleGlazing on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @12:54PM (#23630554)

If they get such a law enacted, then people who really care about end to end encryption will simply "opt out".

There are so many open source crypto tools out there with no backdoors that anyone savvy enough to find them and use them will do so.

Of course the average user probably wouldn't care enough to do that, but maybe a few privacy scandals could change all that.

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Re:Republicans Push Bill Requiring Tech Companies Give Encry... by hundchenkatze on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @04:25PM (#23633419)

I agree, but I also think that, if successful, the law could have the knock-on effect of criminalizing all unsanctioned (read functional) crypto tools.

edit: *leading to arguments like "Oh, you have Signal on your phone, only criminals use Signal."

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Re:Republicans Push Bill Requiring Tech Companies Give Encry... by dane-pgp on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @04:59PM (#23633812)

Unfortunately such arguments are very likely to be made, given that Chief Justice Roberts already suggested in 2014 that a person carrying two cell phones might reasonably be suspected of dealing drugs:

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140501/01194327086/supre...

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