Re:Republicans Push Bill Requiring Tech Companies Give Encry...
by dane-pgp on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @05:30PM
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That may be the case in Australia at least. From [0]:
"if an agency were undertaking an investigation into an act of terrorism and a provider was capable of removing encryption from the device of a terrorism suspect without weakening other devices in the market then the provider could be compelled under a technical assistance notice to provide help to the agency by removing the electronic protection"
As for the US, I wouldn't be surprised if the government has sought to achieve something like this using the All Writs Act[1]. However, in the recent case of Facebook helping the FBI with a targeted use of a vulnerability[2], it seems that they cooperated voluntarily, even paying a third party contractor to help.
"if an agency were undertaking an investigation into an act of terrorism and a provider was capable of removing encryption from the device of a terrorism suspect without weakening other devices in the market then the provider could be compelled under a technical assistance notice to provide help to the agency by removing the electronic protection"
As for the US, I wouldn't be surprised if the government has sought to achieve something like this using the All Writs Act[1]. However, in the recent case of Facebook helping the FBI with a targeted use of a vulnerability[2], it seems that they cooperated voluntarily, even paying a third party contractor to help.
[0] https://www.computerworld.com/article/3460071/encryption-has...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Writs_Act#Application_to_e...
[2] https://gizmodo.com/report-facebook-helped-the-fbi-exploit-v...