Thursday, July 9, 2015

FBI director insists Silicon Valley can solve the encryption dilemma - if they try hard enough

From Help Net Security:

FBI director insists Silicon Valley can solve the encryption dilemma - if they try hard enough

On Wednesday, the US Senate Judiciary Committee got to hear from FBI director James Comey and DOJ Deputy Attorney General Sally Quillian Yates on how end-to-end encryption employed by certain companies (but mostly Apple) is becoming a problem for law enforcement's investigations.

Waving the threat of ISIS and terrorism before the Committee, Comey in particular chose not to believe that cryptographers, technologists and security experts know what they are
talking about, and said that the companies have probably not tried hard enough to come up with a viable answer on how to provide access to law enforcement, but keep criminals out.

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