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Re: As encryption spreads, U.S. grapples with clash between privacy, security
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abcdave
on 12/04/2015, 09:03:10 UTC
For months, federal law enforcement agencies and industry have been deadlocked on a highly contentious issue: Should tech companies be obliged to guarantee government access to encrypted data on smartphones and other digital devices, and is that even possible without compromising the security of law-abiding customers?

No, tech companies should refuse any requests without reasonable warrants. They should also start suing because of this behavior because I doubt its even legal.

“I don’t want a back door,” Rogers, the director of the nation’s top electronic spy agency, said during a speech at Princeton University, using a tech industry term for covert measures to bypass device security. “I want a front door. And I want the front door to have multiple locks. Big locks.”

I honestly don't see what the point of this is. Whatever measures they put in place to catch 'the bad guys' said bad guys will either stop using the technology or find ways around it to evade detection.