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    U.S. Senate Bill Seeks to Ban Effective Encryption, Making Security Illegal

    U.S. Senate Bill Seeks to Ban Effective Encryption, Making Security Illegal


    https://rietta.com/blog/2016/04/08/f...cryption-bill/


    The anticipated Feinstein-Burr Compliance with Court Orders Act, an anti-security bill, would require the provision of data in an intelligible format to a government pursuant to a court order (scribd.com). A draft copy was uploaded by The Hill reporter Cory Bennett, though whether it has been submitted officially within the Senate is not yet clear (vice.com).

    This bill essentially says you can not have any conversation or data exchange that the government can not access if it wants to. It is the legal culmination of what the FBI has been lobbying Congress for years. If Feinstein-Burr becomes law, it will be illegal to deploy strong encryption without key escrow maintained by each company. Cryptographers and computer scientists near-unanimously assert key backup systems are insecure at scale.
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    Goons gonna goon encryption... (and encrypters)
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    I hope it dies in the senate.

    Here's a comment exchange I found interesting:

    Quote Originally Posted by Matt S
    I think all of us Americans are beginning to understand who the REAL enemies are...they're the ones who want to know what we're talking, writing, and thinking about at every minute of every day. Keep on poking the sleeping bear, Congress, and you're gonna find out how hard we can bite.
    Quote Originally Posted by Murray
    We will roll over like logs on a hill. There is very little spirit left in the American people.
    Quote Originally Posted by JPH
    Didn't the UN state encryption is free speech already? Every company doing this will simply pack up and leave the US. Seriously, how stupid are the people running your country? I'm not talking about figureheads like the president... the people actually running your country - big business and legislative bodies.. Time to get some younger blood in there.

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    banning cipher is synonymous with banning algebra

    epic example of banning things you don't even understand

    you can't ban encryption it just doesn't work that way

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    would require the provision of data in an intelligible format to a government pursuant to a court order
    Well, then, nothing really to worry about.

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    Quote Originally Posted by presence View Post
    banning cipher is synonymous with banning algebra

    epic example of banning things you don't even understand

    you can't ban encryption it just doesn't work that way
    True, but they're constantly "banning" different forms of speech and very few notice...
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    So I guess the ineffective encryption is still OK to use. Whew, that was a close one.



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