Republicans Push Bill Requiring Tech Companies Give Encrypted Data

Re:Republicans Push Bill Requiring Tech Companies Give Encry... by jeffdavis on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @03:12PM (#23632492)

"Sure, large companies may comply and average joes may get less E2E encryption, but anyone who knows anything about tech will be able to get access to E2E encrypted messengers."

We are all lazy. I can use gpg, but how often am I going to do that? The NSA won't have access to the recipes that my brother sends to me, but aside from that, they'll get everything.

To bad for them, though. They'd be better off with the recipes than the rest of it.

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Re:Republicans Push Bill Requiring Tech Companies Give Encry... by suizi on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @03:16PM (#23632560)

Anyone committing a serious enough crime to "justify" breaking encryption would be very motivated to not get caught.

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Re:Republicans Push Bill Requiring Tech Companies Give Encry... by causality0 on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @03:31PM (#23632770)

Yes, though the intelligence of criminals varies wildly. One person might organize drug deals over speakerphone in a Starbucks while another might torrent movies only over a clean laptop connected to a public access point with a long-range wifi antenna.

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Re:Republicans Push Bill Requiring Tech Companies Give Encry... by jeffdavis on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @04:01PM (#23633165)

How many of these sophisticated and non-lazy criminals are there?

If you have a lot of sophisticated and non-lazy criminals, my guess is that there is something very wrong. I'd like to know more about these characters and what kinds of crimes they are committing.

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Re:Republicans Push Bill Requiring Tech Companies Give Encry... by suizi on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @03:35PM (#23632821)

If a criminal is that unsophisticated, there should be other ways to catch them? Mind you, there are better ways to tackle drugs than a Law & Order approach.

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